Pictures could not be accessories to the story -- evidence -- they had to contain the story within the frame; the best picture contained a whole war within one frame.

She did not think it was true that women fell in love all at once, but rather, that they fell in love through repitition, just the way someone became brave.

What was the point of living through history if you didn't record it?

Why did someone fall in love with you because you are one thing and then want you to be something else?

Sometimes you have to fulfill a promise in order to deserve the love you're given.

The hardest thing was to give meaning to what appeared to have none.

This is what happened when one left one's home - pieces of oneself scattered all over the world, no one place ever completely satisfied, always a nostalgia for the place left behind.

Too many heroes in my life. All gone.

Clear now that she was as dependent as any addict on the drug of the war. He had underestimated the damage in her.

A woman sees war differently.

Saigon in utter darkness this last night of the war. A gestating monster. Her letter to Linh had been simple: I love you more than life, but I had to see the end.

Spiritual authority is the direct result of God doing a greater work in the deeper areas of a leader’s life.

Teasing's part of the fun that comes before kissing

People love dogs. This is, I hope, the least surprising sentence you will read in this book. I myself have had long discussions with my dog friends, and by that I mean my friends who are dogs.

When sparrows build and the leaves break forth, My old sorrow wakes and cries.

[The Coen brothers] hire the same people over and over again, so there's a shorthand between all of the people they're working with.

There's a lot of interesting words, nomenclatures, in science.

Vex not thy spirit at the course of things, they heed not thy vexations

You don't need to beat yourself up in order to make God love you. Jesus already took your beating.

We do not know where death awaits us: so let us wait for it everywhere. To practice death is to practice freedom. A man who has learned how to die has unlearned how to be a slave.

Music is the poor man's Parnassus.