Though you lose all hope, there is still hope, and it loves to surprise.
I have never met anyone who wanted to save the world without my financial support.
If God had intended me to make excuses for who I am, He would have given me better excuses.
It is the first purpose of hope to make hopelessness bearable.
There are memories I choose not to live with, but we hang out at the same bar.
You can as easily love without trusting as you can hug without embracing.
In many areas of understanding, none so much as in our understanding of God, we bump up against a simplicity so profound that we must assign complexities to it to comprehend it at all. It is mindful of how we paste decals to a sliding glass door to keep from bumping our nose against it.
I regret less the road not taken than my all-fired hurry along the road I took.
The easiest way to meet people is to just look like someone who is willing to listen.
Take no revenge that you have not pondered beneath a starry sky, or on a canyon overlook, or to the lapping of waves and the mewing of a distant gull.
Better you don't search for who you are until you know who it is you want to find.
Optimist: someone who isn't sure whether life is a tragedy or a comedy but is tickled silly just to be in the play.
You can accept a falling out that changes your plans, but it's hard to accept a betrayal that changes your memories.
If I had my life to live over, I'd have fewer meetings and more rendezvous.
The verdict is still out on my life, the judge having not yet instructed the jury, both of whom are me.
I wish to die knowing that I took a fleeting instant of eternity and fashioned from it a lifetime.
Here is the basic question: Are we marionettes, or are we creatures of free will who just happen to have a lot of jerky reflexes?
The hardest thing about reality is returning to it after an hour inside your child's mind.
Once you become the mommy or daddy in your child's world, it is the only world in which you exist, no matter how much you fancy there is a separate world of your own.
Yes, to be a good parent, you have to sacrifice, but this is not a requirement of parenting, it is a requirement of being good at something.
There are more lines formed than things worth waiting for.
It is not necessary to be strong in every place if in the place you are vulnerable, you are loved.
Eventually you come to realize that most people aren't looking for a fight but for someone to surrender to.
On the sixth day, God created the artist, realizing no doubt that He had far from exhausted the uses of color.
The trick to getting things done is to list things to do in doable order.
