Once you take the cat out of the bag, you can't cram it back in.

Change is a good thing. It's good to have a fresh start, even if it's painful sometimes.

What's happened has happened. You can't change the past. All you can do is work on making a brighter future.

Maybe not getting what she wanted gave her everything she wanted after all.

What are you worried about, Burke?""You, me, fall, friends, college, life. Nothing big.

Home isn't these four walls. Home is wherever we are together.

You can't look back. Nothing you can do to change it. Only forward.

Regrets are for wusses.

No matter what you do each day...or in life...doing things God's way is a matter of the heart.

What we gain in the world, we lose in the world, forgotten in death. We must rather fancy what we brought into the world, for therein lives our story, our legend.

If you want to look after your shadow, you just have to look after yourself, that will do!

Architecture aims at Eternity.

Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it.

Politicians are supposed to be empathetic. And, yes, I am, actually.

God forbid that all children, of whom daily so great a multitude die, would perish, but that also for these, the merciful God, who wishes no one to perish, has procured some remedy unto salvation.

The thing about being a writer is that you never have to ask, 'Am I doing something that's worthwhile?' Because even if you fail at it, you know that it's worth doing.

As a writer, I think your first job is to find a subject that you think you and others will find inherently interesting.

I taught myself to drive. I hope that the child in me never dies.