Any institution becomes a community - whether it's a high school or a boarding school or a publishing company or a small town where everybody knows certain things about people.

Maybe a hundred years ago our people should have run away from this place, I said... And then run from the next place and the next place and the place after that? You run once, what makes you think you won't have to run all the rest of your life?... We love moment to moment... Everything changes. One minute we are part of the river, and the next we are joined with the sea.

Holding a tear back makes them drain upward, higher and higher, until one day your head just explodes and you're left with a stub of a neck and nothing more.

Good fortune can take forever to get to you, but as it turns out, sorrow is as quick as a shot.

But what we are given is taken as well, so that we know God's glory comes to us from His will alone.

That is how you know you've left childhood behind-when you wish for time to go backward.

Do what you want, do what you will, do what you have to, do what you think you cannot.