I soared above the song birds And never heard them sing I lived my life in winter And then you brought the spring

I believe that God is carrying us whether we know it or not and is always present. I love what C.S. Lewis said - "You don't have a soul, you are a soul. You have a body."

War is a farmer’s son from Kansas trying to kill a factory worker’s son from Berlin, with neither of them knowing why.

I'm not trying to be noble. I'm afraid. And the idea of having more love than I've ever had-- and knowing I might never have it again-- that scares me worse than anything.

Storytelling is the greatest activity of any culture. Storytelling is how you build a family, how you pass along identity.

Maybe the gift of any great person is the power to converse with our own hearts.

Please don't take my wings...

And what does a person with such romantic temperament seek in the study of the classics?"If by romantic you mean solitary and introspective, I think romantics are frequently the best classicists.

The trick was forgetting about what she had lost ...and learning to go on with what she had left.

If the past has been an obstacle and a burden, knowledge of the past is the safest and the surest emancipation.

The most romantic thing a guy has ever done for me is starting a family. That's as romantic as it gets.

I cannot say something different to one person and then another.

In other words, the man who is born into existence deals first with language; this is a given. He is even caught in it before his birth.

Sometimes I don't get you,' I said. She didn't even glance at me. She just smiled toward the television and said, 'You never get me. That's the whole point.

Where I'm from, you learned about God before you learned to read and write. Our faith is what grounds us.

There's a good many pictures I'd like to make; we'll see how many I'll be allowed to make.

So I started out for God knows where. I guess I'll know when I get there.