It would then be brought abruptly to an end, for the brightness had shown suffering the way.

A snowball in the face is surely the perfect beginning to a lasting friendship.

Imagine smiling after a slap in the face. Then think of doing it twenty-four hours a day.

If only she could be so oblivious again, to feel such love without knowing it, mistaking it for laughter.

Often I wish this would all be over, Liesel, but then somehow you do something like walk down the basement steps with a snowman in your hands.

I have hated words and I have loved them, and I hope I have made them right.

I guess humans like to watch a little destruction. Sand castles, houses of cards, that's where they begin. Their great skills is their capacity to escalate.

No matter how many times she was told that she was loved, there was no recognition that the proof was in the abandonment.

It was the beginning of the greatest Christmas ever. Little food. No presents. But there was a snowman in their basement.

As always, one of her books was next to her.

If you can't imagine it, think clumsy silence. Think bits and pieces of floating despair. And drowning in a train.

The story of evolution unfolds with increasing levels of abstraction.

Everyone is beautiful, everyone is perfect, and everyone is lovely.

All work flows from some underlying assumptions, and the content of that faith can dramatically change our expectations for our work.

Lying is sometimes acted, insinuated, or implied, in a manner as injurious and shameful as when the falsehood is spoken outright.

What religion cannot do, GRACE does! Grace empowered obedience beats striving and performing any time!! Every time!!

Precisely the least, the softest, lightest, a lizard's rustling, a breath, a flash, a moment - a little makes the way of the best happiness.

If you cannot conduct yourself with propriety, give place to those who can.

I always push myself, even when I did a film where it was pretty much me the whole film.

It isn't easy to live after death. It takes a lifetime.