I said nothing. Deep inside of me, my voice screamed from a hole where I had buried it

Love hides in all sorts of places, in the most sorrowful corner of your heart, in the darkest and most hopeless situation

words, you see, " he said, looking at me again, "allow us to make permanent what is essentially transient.Turn a world filled with injustice and hurt into a place that is beautiful and lyrical.

I thought maybe we mourned not only for the dead but also for the living. We felt their absence before we knew for sure they were gone.

Confidence is this: Wearing your triumphs with humility, and wearing your scars with pride. Many of us do precisely the opposite.

The gentleman is a Christian product.

Our instinctive emotions are those that we have inherited from a much more dangerous world, and contain, therefore, a larger portion of fear than they should.

And for all these people alike, the key to healing turned out to be the same. Each had a hurt he had to forgive.

It is a mistake to think you cant be hurt if you don't care

Were we perfectly acquainted with the object, we should never passionately desire it.

The greatest single virtue of a strong legislature is not what it can do, but what it can prevent.

Don't just go through it; grow through it.

If a word in the dictionary were misspelled, how would we know?

The laws of economic life are subject to the eternal laws of spiritual capital.