The rhythm of breath may have been our first language.

I’ve always been a sucker for the beautiful and the batshit.

There was as much joy in surrendering free will as exercising it.

He twirled a finger, the universal symbol for roll down your window -- universal despite the fact that no one had manually rolled down a window in twenty years.

Be the light. Be the love. Not to one or two selectively, but to each person who crosses your path today and every day.

We were not destined to survive. The fact is, we were not destined at all. The war would take what it could get.

The tragedy of sin reached its crescendo when God in Christ became sin . . .He was offering Himself as the sacrifice required by the justice of God if man was to be redeemed.

The happy Union of these States is a wonder; their Constitution a miracle; their example the hope of Liberty throughout the world.

There was never a thought of career in my brain ever for anything.

True faith will no more fail to produce [good works] than the sun can cease to give light.

I hope that you know in your heart how you feel about things, and you don't let the people that live on fear and hate govern the way you live.

I certainly have dreams of being on a Broadway stage someday, if they'll have me. I think I want to stay really open to whatever possibilities present themselves.

Basically, I learned to read by reading 'Peanuts,' just wanting to know what they were saying.

The majority of poems one outgrows and outlives, as one outgrows and outlives the majority of human passions.