We loved each other in the same difficult, unusable way where you took turns doing it, instead of ever managing to do it at the same time.

That's the brutality of a breakup, isn't it? The people leaving think they did everything possible, the people left behind think what is possible hasn't even been tested yet.

Belief isn't supposed to make sense, at least not all the time. In that, it finds its power. It gets to creep up on you and carry you forward. Until you can carry yourself again.

Why could we say more to each other when it counted less?

Why does it take fear to move you? Why does it take chaos to make us understand exactly what we need to do?

Sometimes you don't know it. What you have been waiting your whole life for. You don't know until it is happening.

We have to figure out how to let go, and forgive. This is our job.

There are words and there are feelings and somewhere between where the two meet is the truth

You can't finish the things you weren't supposed to start.

It's harder to appreciate what you don't have to look hard to find.

I couldn't help but wonder if that was what love was -- believing that someone was going to come through, in the end, and that it would still count

Our old history ends with the Cross

Once you've caught a glimpse of the cosmos through the back doors of your church, it doesn't seem like such a big deal to suggest to a sweet young couple that they quit sleeping with other people.

As Justice Sandra Day O'Connor stated, even a state of war is not a blank check for a president to do whatever he wants.

It's not what we don't know that prevents us from succeeding; it's what we know that just ain't so that is our greatest obstacle.

Few years ago, I said something about the Academy being very white male, which is the reality, and I was slashed to pieces by the media.

Science is not about what's true or what might be true, science is about what people with originally diverse viewpoints can be forced to believe by the weight of public evidence.

History is made by masses of people. One man, or ten men, don't start the earthquakes and don't stop them either. Only hero worshipers and ignorant historians think they do.

Those that are the hardest to love, need it the most.

Fear and hope are alike underneath.

I try not to invent things that people don't need.