There is something beautiful about a billion stars held steady by a God who knows what He is doing.

When you stop expecting people to be perfect, you can like them for who they are.

I have sometimes wondered if the greatest desire of man is to be known and loved anyway.

And so I have come to understand that strength, inner strength, comes from receiving love as much as it comes from giving it.

What I believe is not what I say I believe; what I believe is what I do.

You can't tell a good story without conflict - the story can't be beautiful or meaningful. We're taught to run from conflict, and it's robbing us of some really good stories.

If we knew how much God loved us and was for us, we’d talk to Him all day long.

How disappointing would it be get to heaven and find out God created life to be enjoyed while all we did was worry?

I can no more understand the totality of God than the pancake I made for breakfast understands the complexity of me

People love to have lived a great story, but few people like the work it takes to make it happen.

All the trees are losing their leaves, and not one of them is worried.

moonrisesettle back with muffins and teauntil the window empties

Vertigo is something else than the fear of falling. It is the voice of emptiness below us which temps and lures us, it is the desire to fall, against which, terrified, we defense ourselves.

Don't walk in my head with your dirty feet.

Love, free as air, at sight of human ties, Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies.

I love your daughter fondly, dearly, disinterestedly, devotedly. If ever there were love in the world, I love her.

When eras die, their legacies Are left to strange police. Professors in New England guard The glory that was Greece.

I like sweaters. I have a sweater obsession, I guess.

If you suffer in love, if you have problems in love, it's because you don't have enough humility.

I am painfully situated, Utterson; my position is a very strange - a very strange one. It is one of those affairs that cannot be mended by talking.

Being an action star is all I had ever hoped to be. I ultimately knew I would be an action star.