The death of a beloved is an amputation.

No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.

Praise is the mode of love which always has some element of joy in it.

Grief is like a long valley, a winding valley where any bend may reveal a totally new landscape.

What do people mean when they say, 'I am not afraid of God because I know He is good'? Have they never even been to a dentist?

I need Christ, not something that resembles Him.

My idea of God is not a divine idea. It has to be shattered time after time. He shatters it Himself.

Her absence is like the sky, spread over everything.

Oh God, God, why did you take such trouble to force this creature out of its shell if it is now doomed to crawl back -- to be sucked back -- into it?

And there’s also ‘To him that hath shall be given.’ After all, you must have a capacity to receive, or even omnipotence can’t give. Perhaps your own passion temporarily destroys the capacity.

I sometimes think that shame, mere awkward, senseless shame, does as much towards preventing good acts and straightforward happiness as any of our vices can do.

He hated when his own advice applied to himself.

She still cared for me, and the best way I could make amends to her was to be happy.I do have a knack for finding great women.

Happiness and joy are both decisions and choices you must make every day.

I kind of have to go to the bathroom, " Aria said woozily.Ezra smiled. "Can I come?

Only the impossible is worth doing.

Be — don't try to become

The executive branch maneuvered this result deftly.

I have as many pictures of my vocal cords as I do of my children. I have a great ear, nose and throat doctor, and we look at them - if there's some redness, maybe I'll take a little time off.

All right, your knees may be knocking but that shouldn't prevent you from going ahead and doing what you need to do.

I have no patience whatever with these gorilla damnifications of humanity.