So much of marriage was implicit and nonverbal. Had I gotten so complacent I'd forgotten to communicate?

When you love someone, you say their name different. Like it's safe inside your mouth.

I always hated when my scars started to fade, because as long as I could still see them, I knew why I was hurting.

Things that look impossible suddenly seem a lot better, once you get God on board.

Although you hadn't asked why, it had less to do with you not noticing than with you not wanting to hear the answer.

People ask all the time how I'm doing, but the truth is, they don't really want to know.

All any of us wanted, really, was to know that we counted. That someone else's life would not have been as rich without us here.

It never failed to amaze me how the most ordinary day could be catapulted into the extraordinary in the blink of an eye.

Maybe I was naïve to think that silence was implicit complacence, instead of a festering question. Maybe I was silly to believe that friends owed each other anything.

Doing the right thing for someone else occasionally means doing something that feels wrong to you.

What you didn't tell someone was just as debilitating as what you did.

Lord I thank you for the gift of life.

Sprawled out on the front lawn/ looking up at an ordinary sky/ it could fall on me and some how be/ the day I didn't die.

Our lives depend on recognizing that human cloning, like all forms of 'playing God,' is a moral, life-promoting endeavor.

We serve Him most who take the most of His exhaustless love.

Conversely, it is correct to say that bringing about peace would be the best way to fight terror.

Don't be dumb. (don't get a tattoo)

None of great sages of China preached the precept of love as a guideline for human behavior.

In life, we have either reasons or results

A man must have limits and cannot give in to the wild desires to be everything and everyone and everything to everyone.

I think good ideas are usually better done quickly than slowly.