We don't get to choose the things that happen to us in life. What we can choose is how to react to them, how we deal with them, and how we move on.

Love left to languish will bear poisonous fruit.

Ties to people on the other side of the storm could be severed. Love could bud, then wither and die without a bloom when the storm ended and reality bled back in.

He sent up another silent prayer to wherever desperate prayers go and took the first step toward what he hoped would be salvation.

We're a mess, Kate.

One of life's contradictions: how human beings were at once entirely resilient and impossibly fragile. One decision could stay with you forever, and yet you could live through almost anything.

The progress of science, like an ancient desert trail, is strewn with the bleached skeletons of discarded theories, doctrines, and axioms which seemed to possess eternal life.

Constancy in love is a good thing; but it means nothing, and is nothing, without constancy in every kind of effort.

It's just writing about things, feelings, not that we're dark or depressed...just as much as anyone else is.

Calling fishing a hobby is like calling brain surgery a job.

No matter who or what we are, God restores us to right standing with Himself only by means of the death of Jesus Christ.

It was the kiss by which all the others of his life would be judged and found wanting.

Thus must we toil in other men's extremes, That know not how to remedy our own.

When you start in movie business... It is a business, actually. Nothing to do with art. Picasso is art, and Giacometti, but film acting is no art. Just the luck of being discovered, maybe.