His eyes touched lightly, and passed on.

God answered prayers first by teaching the need to ask, second by using friends as holy messengers.

Alex had cooked, and coaxed, and helped Mark form borders around the shapeless days. Alex had given meaning to the word "servant".

For the Arab, the past does not merely live. The past defines the present.

He used a minimum of words and no inflection whatsoever. It was a policeman's manner of speaking, direct and unadorned.

It was typical of the American to identify the one unfinished strand.

Mark felt eyes on him as tight as a sniper's aim.

Normal Iraqi etiquette was forgotten the moment drivers sat behind the wheel.

The distance had been evaporated by humor

Love others, not because they deserve your love, but because the universe deserves peace.

Compassion Enlivens us and enhances our immune system. The more we pour out, the more we find available. 

When we make the unfamiliar familiar, make the unknown known, make the uncomfortable comfortable, and believe the unbelievable, we can then expect the unexpected.

His conscience, like a sunburnt scorpion, was stinging itself to death.

You have to exercise, or at some point you'll just break down.

Because when you’re wildly in love with someone, it changes everything.

Nor did demons crucify Him; it is you who have crucified Him and crucify Him still, when you delight in your vices and sins.

Cinderella could not be more wonderful, as a woman. You're with her, the whole film. I had to create a guy that was worthy of her affections, and that was difficult.

I'm frank, brutally frank. And even when I'm not frank, I look frank.

Googling yourself is maybe one of the worst things you can do. I did it once, and someone had to talk me off a ledge.