We believed in our grandmother’s cooking more fervently than we believed in God.

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.

You don't need to be everyone, nothing is ever awesome than to be comfortable in your own skin.

He is Romeo, and he is heartbroken. Every word is wistful. When he says, 'O, teach me how I should forget to think!' I, for the first time, see what the big deal is about Shakespeare.

You get what you work for, not what you think you deserve.

Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.

How much would you pay to avoid a second Depression?

In addition to showing gratitude to others, place emphasis on showing gratitude to yourself

Love doesn’t always have to be spoken out loud.

I want to be able to work a piece of wood into an object that contributes something beautiful and useful to everyday life.

See to whom Jesus is drawing near, three kinds of people: to those who make peace with him, to those who are devoted to God, and to those who are kind to their neighbors.