For a man the whole world is his love. For a woman love is her whole world.

Art is life, life is life, but to lead life artistically is the art of life.

God thinks within geniuses, dreams within poets, and sleeps within the rest of us.

There are only two things that can destroy a healthy [hu]man: love trouble, ambition, and financial catastrophe. And that's already three things, and there are a lot more.

It is sad to be an exception. But not to be one is even sadder.

God thinks in the geniusses, he dreams in the poets and slumbers in the rest of humanity.

Breaking the cycle of ungrace means taking the initiative.

Jolly felt salty tears on her lips, and for the first time in her life it occurred to her that sorrow tasted exactly like the sea.

Never be afraid to share your story. No one can tell it like you can.

It is a perplexing and unpleasant truth that when men already have 'something worth fighting for' they do not feel like fighting.

Technology is so much fun but we can drown in our technology. The fog of information can drive out knowledge.

People think I'm really melancholy and romantic and all whispery. I'm not at all. I'm very direct.

After you die, you wear what you are.

Grief is the tax we pay on our attachments.

The gospel is an exclusive truth but it's the most inclusive exclusive truth in the world.

Under the rubric of religious freedom, we respect the right to worship differently much more than the right to worship not at all.