We may not be able to control what happens to us, but we can always control how we react.

I must give you this warning: your journeys will rarely ever go as you plan. You will make mistakes, and you will feel lost. Whenever that happens, look to the light and keep moving forward in faith.

In the quiet of the graveyard, the couple knelt together in soul-stretching silence—wishing, waiting, hoping, praying.

Willpower, though important in its own way, is never enough. In order for you to be truly powerful, you must open up and trust in something beyond yourself—something you cannot prove for certain.

Have faith in the light you carry.

Faith is believing in something you cannot prove for certain.

Always go as far as you can see, then let faith take you the rest of the way.

And so I tell you, restless one, that no matter what happens, when things get dark, look to the light and keep moving forward in faith.

Where does your soul walk? Does it walk in the sunlit woods or hide in the shadowy forest?

I didn't just see a child in my dreams—I felt it in my heart.

Where does your soul walk?

Dignity, and even holiness too, sometimes, are more questions of coat and waistcoat than some people imagine.

Find me. Seduce me. I want to be in love with you.

finding in motion, what was once in place

Is this how you repay my goodness--with badness?” cried the boy. “Of course,” said the crocodile out of the corner of his mouth. “That is the way of the world.

There are bugs and there are the pigeons and other predators, but you shouldn't be afraid of them, because this is how nature works.

I'm trying to show by my actions that you can make a far better world if you just care enough. That's all you have to do. It's no big deal. One act of kindness a day can do it.

Things rarely get fixed the way they need to be.

Successful trout fishing isn't a matter of brute force or even persistence, but something more like infiltration.

Men are boys in bigger packages.

Many people in this world are merely playing a role, unaware that there is an Invisible Hand guiding them.