As you see, context is everything and nothing at the same time. Words stand alone and with each other.

Sometimes instinct can be wrong. But sometimes it can be right too. And sometimes you just have to take it on faith.

We are what we love. We are the things, the people, the ideas we spend our days with. They center us, they drive us, they define us to our very core. Without them, we are empty.

Standing up for what's right is a huge burden to bear. It's normal to have some doubt.

Sometimes, when we are sad, we have to do the opposite of sad. Sometimes we have to sing.

Trains are all the ways you miss each other-wrong train, wrong tracks, wrong time.

When someone you love has died, there is a certain grace period during which you can get away with murder. Not literal murder, but pretty much anything else.

Do you need anything?" she asks. A mom A dad. Someone. Anyone. Can you arrange for that? "Nah, I'm good.

Get away from my house and all its rooms that echo, all the rooms I don't enter anymore.

Why she was the happy one when she was dying, and I just can't seem to manage anything when I'm living.

Because I'm living, and I sure as hell don't have a clue how to feel anything but empty.

The fox has many tricks. The hedgehog has but one, but that is the best of all.

Don't expect everyone to admire this world is made up of hate and fire.

God is always faithful to His principles, and for this reason He blesses the diligent

Finally, and most of all, words failed him.

The two-fold goal of all human striving is the avoidance of pain, and the fulfillment of happiness.

You are in a prison with no bars. I worry about you.

I wasn't that into crime novels at all, but a friend introduced me to the work of Jim Thompson - I loved all his books.

I think as - all in all, it's better to have a cool president than a not cool president.

Every man has a right to a Saturday night bath.

Let's forgive the past and who we were then. Let's embrace the present and who we're capable of becoming. Let's surrender the future and watch miracles unfold.