Despite all the other factors that had contributed to my fate, in the end it was my decision that destroyed my life. And all the hurt I was enduring now was my doing. The blame rested solely with me.

I dreamed of you every night. It felt so real. And when I'd wake up the next morning, it was like your disappearance was fresh. Like you'd left me all over again.

Remembering is easy. It's forgetting that's hard.

Sometimes... Sometimes our hearts...crack a little.

Heroes are made by the paths they choose, not the powers they are graced with.

Sometimes, when something hurts us, our hearts break a little-in a slightly ... more literal way than for humans. Our pain sort of spills out and onto anyone around us. We call it a cracked heart.

Heroes don't exist. And if they did, I wouldn't be one of them.

Life is way too short, so try to enjoy every minute of it with a sense of humor!

Jesus never spoke of truth in abstraction, as something that stands alone. Jesus always spoke of truth in relation to God being revealed through himself.

There is room for words on subjects other than last words.

You need to see a bit of hell now and then. That, and great joy.

It is worse to apprehend than to suffer.

I always thought if you worked hard enough and tried hard enough, things would work out. I was wrong.

I have lived a long time, and one thing I have come to see is that one is well served by a degree of both humility and charity when judging the inner workings of another person's heart

It's not just an economic crisis that capitalism has created. We also face an environmental catastrophe created by a handful of gigantic fossil fuel corporations.

The writer is always courted by invitations from the all-too- familiar.

Partial legalization, as some are suggesting, is a dangerous path, and we need only look at France and Germany to see how unwise it is to create a permanent underclass.