None of us deserve the good things that come our way. It's by grace, love and forgiveness that any of us experience joy.

You can’t get back the time in the past. You can’t change it. You can only make sure to learn and move forward.

I was taught that you can’t expect to be forgiven when you continuously commit the same sin over and over again.

Never lose Faith. Always have hope. Love for always.

We could all use the power of prayer now and then, but it seems to me that the people who are sure they have a direct line to heaven are most often calling collect with bad news.

We either make ourselves miserable or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.

I think of [my photographs] as found paintings because I don't crop them, I don't manipulate them or anything. So they're like found objects to me.

Grief drives men into habits of serious reflection, sharpens the understanding, and softens the heart

All whom war, dearth, age, agues, tyrannies, Despair, law, chance, hath slain.

For me, poetry is an impish attempt to paint the colour of the wind.

Sam’s probably out there somewhere being his usual heroic self,” Caine said. “I can’t let that boy save the world all alone. I’d never live it down.

We cannot lower the mountain, therefore we must elevate ourselves.

You pay a very high price in the stock market for a cheery consensus.

I can again thy former light restore, Should I repent me: but once put out thy light, Thou cunning'st pattern of excelling nature, I know not where is that Promethean heat That can thy light relume.