But there is something about human beings that too often makes our love for the world look very much like hatred for it.

Love is holy because it is like grace--the worthiness of its object is never really what matters.

Sometimes I have loved the peacefulness of an ordinary Sunday. It is like standing in a newly planted garden after a warm rain. You can feel the silent and invisible life.

Every sorrow suggests a thousand songs and every song recalls a thousand sorrows and so they are infinite in number and all the same.

I am grateful for all those dark years, even though in retrospect they seem like a long, bitter prayer that was answered finally.

We are part of a mystery, a splendid mystery within which we must attempt to orient ourselves if we are to have a sense of our own nature.

This is an interesting planet. It deserves all the attention you can give it.

There is more beauty than our eyes can bear, precious things have been put into our hands and to do nothing to honor them is to do great harm.

Ordinary things have always seemed numinous to me

When we did not move or speak, there was no proof that we were there at all.

Because, once alone, it is impossible to believe that one could ever have been otherwise. Loneliness is an absolute discovery.

Peeta" I said "Stay with me"I heard him say one word before the drigs pulled me under, I realised later that what he said was 'always

Had there been no sun, life would have found some other means of illuminating the world. It is odd that we give the sun so much importance.

Art school had taught me it was far better to be a flamboyant failure than any kind of benign success.

When you're true to who you are, amazing things happen.

When you focus on the eternal, victorious Son of God, you break the devil's heart and render him powerless.

I don't need no extra hands in my pocket.

Music is my mistress and she plays second fiddle to no one.

I've never had a fear of traveling and going to a new place. I adapt.

Your great power lies not on the surface, but deep within your being.

We truly need Him every hour, whether they be hours of sunshine or of rain.