Don't put off happiness you can have today. Tomorrow is a hope, not a promise

Blake took her face in his hands. “You let me touch you. Kiss you. Your skin? It feels like piano keys. My hands know just where to go.

You make the rest of the beautiful things in the world cry for even trying at all. You make it hard for me to breathe.

There is something about me, doll face. It’s between my legs, and I do believe a few minutes ago you were praying to it.

Don't tie your success to anything other than what's inside you

In that moment? I knew you were sent to me, that I'd been given nothing from the people in my life, but I think from God, or whoever is in charge, I got you.

True love, the kind that lasts forever, is very rare indeed. It takes compromise, continued growth, and trust.

His heart overflowed with good intentions but his fists felt best covered in blood.

But if all this time between them had taught him anything, it was that they were orbiting the same fate. Together, always together, even when physically apart.

Sometimes you can save someone’s whole world just by smiling at them. Kindness is one of those things that has immense value to the person experiencing it.

You want to be bad, angel? I can teach you every position it comes in

The sky had lightened when they got up from the sand. They shook the blanket before wrapping it around them both. Cuddling close they entered the hotel, shivering as they stood in the elevator.

Jesus' miracles provide us with a sample of the meaning of redemption: a freeing of creation from the shackles of sin and evil and a reinstatement of creaturely living as intended by God.

He was afflicted by the thought that where Beauty was, nothing ever ran quite straight, which no doubt, was why so many people looked on it as immoral.

I guess I so desperately want to see us put this planet right. It's so horrifying to me that a fifth of us are starving every night, and that forty thousand children die every single day.

I think a lot of people compare their insides to other people’s outsides.

I've always been an optimist.

I actually didn't want to have control of the writing on my first album. To write, you have to have time to connect with yourself. I don't have that time right now, because I'm so busy.

The Aztecs believe they started up in what's now New Mexico, and wandered for 10,000 years before they got down into where they are now, in Mexico City. That's a weird legend.

If I talk about coal, people will start equating my statements with a political angle. This is not a platform for politics, I'm not making any allegations on anyone.

The manager has his eye on the bottom line; the leader has his eye on the horizon.