Being a parent wasn't just about bearing a child. It was about bearing witness to its life.

When you love someone, you say their name different. Like it's safe inside your mouth.

I always hated when my scars started to fade, because as long as I could still see them, I knew why I was hurting.

Things that look impossible suddenly seem a lot better, once you get God on board.

Although you hadn't asked why, it had less to do with you not noticing than with you not wanting to hear the answer.

People ask all the time how I'm doing, but the truth is, they don't really want to know.

All any of us wanted, really, was to know that we counted. That someone else's life would not have been as rich without us here.

It never failed to amaze me how the most ordinary day could be catapulted into the extraordinary in the blink of an eye.

Maybe I was naïve to think that silence was implicit complacence, instead of a festering question. Maybe I was silly to believe that friends owed each other anything.

Doing the right thing for someone else occasionally means doing something that feels wrong to you.

What you didn't tell someone was just as debilitating as what you did.

The more you read, the better you are informed.

Mankind’s original destiny was to extend God’s glorious dominion of love throughout the earth

The real winners in life are the people who look at every situation with an expectation that they can make it work or make it better.

God will either give us what we ask, or what He knows to be better for us.

We know: of course, with regard to the market and similar social structures, a great many facts which we cannot measure and on which indeed we have only some very imprecise and general information.

Ignorant kindness may have the effect of cruelty; but to be angry with it as if it were direct cruelty would be an ignorant unkindness.

No doubt about it: error is the rule, truth is the accident of error.

Today is the first day of the rest of your life, and if you screw that up, you can start again tomorrow.

The different accidents of life are not so changeable as the feelings of human nature.

It is not the prisoners who need reformation, it is the prisons.