When I looked at you, my life made sense. Even the bad things made sense. They were necessary to make you possible.

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.

To live more for God and others one must die more to self and sin.

The digital world has been in a separate orbit from our medical cocoon, and it's time the boundaries be taken down.

Never let your fear decide your fate.

After all is said and done, its usually the wife who has said it and the husband who has done it.

God is watching us, but He loves us so much that He can't take His eyes off us. We may lose sight of God, but He never loses sight of us.

Mr. Presley has no discernible singing ability.

The important things to me are your faith, your family and your friends. If you have that, you have everything.

Love can make even nice people do awful things.

I hurt someone's feelings once.

In my experience, it's all wonderful with girls until about 16. Around that time, boys kind of calm down and start focusing their testosterone. Girls get a little challenging, especially for fathers.