The hardest part of writing is not to get the ideas but to remember, why it is important to get them.

If the thrill of hunting were in the hunt, or even in the marksmanship, a camera would do just as well.

You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.

Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living.

The sky slowly pulled up its blue dress to reveal night.

The more you love someone, he came to think, the harder it is to tell them. It surprised him that strangers didn't stop each other on the street to say I love you.

His voice was handsome and broken, like a cobblestone street.

To feel alone is to be alone.

Words are capable of making experience more vivid, and also of organizing it. They can scare us, and they can comfort us.

When we eat factory-farmed meat we live, literally, on tortured flesh. Increasingly, that tortured flesh is becoming our own.

It has shown me that everything is illuminated in the light of the past. It is always along the side of us...on the inside, looking out.

Life Cuts Like A Knife if You Live it Without Purpose. Make it a Thrive by Finding Yours!

Oh yes. It was well worth it, doing things the proper way.

And when a whisper became a begging it was time to move on.

From a motivation perspective, helping others enriches the meaning and purpose of our own lives, showing us that our contributions matter and energizing us to work harder, longer, and smarter.

I think I was raised in a solidly upper-middle class family who had really strong values and excess was not one of the things that my family put up with.

It's great to work with the people who make you laugh and who are funnier than I am.

Women's sport helps break down a lot of barriers for women in other areas, whether in religion or politics.

People like beauty and purity. They pretend that's what it's all about.

It's the way Hillary Clinton goes on the attack and tries to hurt victims of sexual predations. I mean, she's the one who says that victims should be taken seriously.

People need an enemy to feel a sense of purpose.