You want to give him the book of his own life, the book that will locate him, parent him, arm him for the changes.

You cannot find peace by avoiding life.

There is a beauty in the world, though it's harsher than we expect it to be.

There is still that singular perfection, and it's perfect in part because it seemed, at the time, so clearly to promise more.

Dead, we are revealed in our true dimensions, and they are surprisingly modest.

I don't think two people could have been happier than we have been.

What she wants to say has to do not only with joy but with the penetrating, constant fear that is joy's other half.

Here is the world, and you live in it, and are grateful. You try to be grateful.

Love is deep, a mystery - who wants to understand its every particular?

She has failed. She wishes she didn't mind. Something, she thinks, is wrong with her.

Here, then, is the last moment of true perception, a man fishing in a red jacket and a cloudy sky reflected on opaque water.

Grace is the pleasure of God to magnify the worth of God by giving sinners the right and power to delight in God without obscuring the glory of God.

Mars tugs at the human imagination like no other planet. With a force mightier than gravity, it attracts the eye to the shimmering red presence in the clear night sky...

Sow wisdom today, and you will reap success tomorrow.

Any well-established village in New England or the northern Middle West could afford a town drunkard, a town atheist, and a few Democrats.

To do a world tour with my album, that would be really incredible. I love travelling, and I love travelling through my music.

I did so many comedies that we've had numerous discussions about horror of film and I've always been really hesitant to do so because the last thing I wanted to make was a horror movie.

What attracts usually comes from a place you'd never think.

A rich man is one who isn't afraid to ask the salesperson to show him something cheaper.

Our churches should attract the people Jesus attracted and frustrate the people Jesus frustrated.

The future is very much in our hands--in our actions.