Are guilt and regret not messages from inside of us, letting us know that our moral compasses have been recalibrated and are pointing in the right direction?

Time limits tend to turn everything predictable and mundane into a novelty.

She supposed this was the real definition of a mother – a woman who willingly allows her heart to break over and over again for her children.

The benefit of carrying the entire world on your shoulders was that you didn’t have to stare it in the face.

Traveling, she realized, was like a slow dismemberment of the body. It plucked the heart out of her and split it into pieces, leaving a bit behind wherever she went, never to be whole again.

Such was the cyclical nature of Galway life: finding tragedy in the simple things and simplicity in the tragic things.

Love gives without expectation, while hate carries an endless tally of debts.

Though it may feel otherwise, enjoying life is no more dangerous than apprehending it with continuous anxiety and gloom.

New York is a city where people are ambitious. They want things.

faith isn't faith until it's all we have to hold on to and knowledge fails us. When we pray for faith, we automatically pray for darkness. Think about it.

Life is like an elevator, a lot of ups and downs. People pushing your buttons and getting jerked around.

You've seen every single race besmirched, but you never saw an unfavorable image of a kike because the Jews are ever watchful for that. They never allowed it to be shown on the screen!

When we start to believe stories about how life works that come from anywhere else but within, we have set ourselves up for a crash course in getting a spiritual wake-up call!

I have days when I say, 'I'm going to have five chocolate chip cookies today.' I'll have a salad every day but every week I have a cheat day.

He never falls into the trap of the word "freedom".

The nature of democracy is such that when there's - there'll be revulsion, obviously, towards - that's never going to happen again.