I trace the letters on the tree behind us in the picture. No one knows what's churning inside of me. Crushing guilt...Pain...Relief. All mixed with knowledge that Trip is never coming back.

The summer night was settling upon the neighborhood like a dark lace veil, casting dappled shadows on the roofs and sidewalks and lawns.

My strength is my humility. When you are humble, people like you.

I think more dating stuff is scheduling. It's needing people who understand your work schedule.

If we lose our wilderness, we have nothing left, in my opinion, worth fighting for; or to be more exact, a completely industrialized United States is of no consequence to me.

I can't worry about match too much. There's nothing I can do.

We're teaching our children how to live. We need to start teaching them how to die.

The fact of our salvation being not something, but Someone, produces quietness of spirit and an unshakable confidence.

Truth is better than fiction in terms of telling the story.

I had a standing arrangement with God: I'd agree to believe in him—barely—so long as he let me sleep in on Sundays.

I'm not going to try to go out there and outdo him. I don't have to try to outdo him, I'm Shaq.