Come morning, his memory would be of a night spent watching over them all. And each of them - dog and boy, mother and old man - would feel the same.

It was one thing to live in a world where death stood a distant figure, quite another to hold it in your hands.

...do you actually think that how long a person grieves is a measure of how much they loved someone?

...in that dilated moment after sunset when the sky holds all the light...

Anything can happen. But almost always, just normal things happen and people have happy lives.

It was one of the many rules in the kennel, rules that didn't always make sense, or even seem important, until some situation drew the lesson out.

So you can be 'fantastic' or 'elastic' but can you ever be both lol??

Do more than is required. What is the distance between someone who achieves their goals consistently and those who spend their lives and careers merely following? The extra mile.

I was born with a happy heart, and I try to keep a good attitude. It's not true that I'm happy all the time because nobody is, and we all go through our things.

Future shock is the shattering stress and disorientation that we induce in individuals by subjecting them to too much change in too short a time.

Our great need is to discover that Jesus is all we need.

When I make a work, I often take it to the very edge of its collapse, and that's a very beautiful balance.

We would make our heroes shallow.... We would make them brittle. It is they who must remind us of the true meaning of strength.

I got into politics a little bit by chance, as a person from the first generation of the Solidarity movement.

It is possible to hold a faith with enough confidence to believe that what should be rendered to God does not need to be decided and collected by Caesar.

I am saying that there is no salvation apart from Jesus; that’s my evangelical mindset. However, I am not convinced that Jesus only lives in Christians