We're all suicides. The tragedy is every day that we don't die.

Shane met him owing to the storybooks she studied to discover what attributes made one princessly—this wasn't technically a word, but she felt there should be equity in adjectives if not in life.

Trying to destroy yourself gives a pretty clear message and it's not one I think you'd like. Sounds a bit like, “I'm too self-centered to be constructive, so I have to open a vein…

Isn't watching sacred potential kill itself as good a punishment as eternal fire?

Opening her mouth to take a bite seemed forward. Chewing? Obscene. Mutual mastication was out of the question.

She could not keep his death in her head, like when she tried to imagine the infiniteness of the universe and nearly swooned at the vastness of the thought.

The nature of God's plan can be difficult to fathom when you are toiling in some small corner of it, but it is glorious from above, if you allow yourself the perspective.

The demons are not easily dispatched, instead attaching themselves to otherwise beautiful things, a favorite food or a love note left for you, to see how you react when they rear up.

Do you know what Hell is? ...No fire, no brimstone. Man in his infinite folly invented that to rob from his brothers their will. Hell is existing without Our Father. None of His love touches me.

Maybe it is like Pascal's Wager, but I want to believe in the immortality of the soul because consciousness is such a fantastic gift that is feels cruel and unfair to end it so quickly.

Natural law has decreed it so. Isn't death as much a part of the flow as life? Why fight it? Because maybe the flow splashes into a bottomless pit past that blind turn.

I want to shake them for their ignorance and scream that their Sistine Chapel is filled with cracks.

Winning is a choice, but losing is an option.

Teach your employees how to build relationships with your customers.

He wanted to stay there forever, letting her soothe him, pretending he was just a kid and his mom could make everything okay.

The courage of very ordinary people is all that stands between us and the dark.

I believe forgiveness is possible for everybody, for everything, but I'm a Buddhist.

The surprising thing about fatherhood was finding my inner mush. Now I want to share it with the world.

A Christian has no right being in a fight unless it's a spiritual fight.

Some paint comes across directly onto the nervous system and other paint tells you the story in a long diatribe through the brain.

I bow my head to the victims of terrorism. I am highly impressed of the courage of New York residents. The great city and the great American nation are to win!