If you have not clung to a broken piece of your old ship in the dark night of the soul, your faith may not have the sustaining power to carry you through to the end of the journey.

I pin my hopes to quiet processes and small circles in which vital and transforming events take place.

There is no way to find yourself until you discover how utterly to lose yourself.

In any case, fighting will not settle whether the claims were just or unjust. It will only settle which nation can mobilize and handle its fighting forces and its economic forces the better.

Nations are not thugs. They are bodies of intelligent people.

There is no great future for any people whose faith has burned out.

...Loretta threatened to beat him to death with a wooden spoon...

I'm tired of carrying around the weight of the world. I'm just going to lay it down now. It's my time to die, and it's your time to live. Don't mess it up.

The situation is like this: they hired our parents to destroy this world, and now they'd like to put us to work rebuilding it, and -- to add insult to injury -- at a profit.

Falling in love is like seeing the ocean for the very first time, when all of your life you've been stepping in puddles.

Auditioning is extremely bizarre. Just being an actor is extremely bizarre, but I wouldn't have it any other way.

One act of violence takes four generations to heal.

As I made my way home, I thought Jem and I would get grown but there wasn't much else for us to learn, except possibly algebra.

I just wanna give a big shout out to all the fans out there who have followed my work up until now. You guys are amazing!! Hearing from fans is the best feeling in the world.

The need to find meaning...is as real as the need for trust and for love, for relations with other human beings.

True strength is the courage to admit our weaknesses.