You gain power by pretending to be weak. By contrast, you make people feel strong. You save people by letting them save you.

I am the cause of all my upsets. I am my worst enemy.

Ever since college, I make friends. They get married. I lose friends.

Those who can forget the past are way ahead of the rest of us.

Everyone wants to be tested and challenged. Everyone would like a good, honest fight to exhaust their frustrations.

The trick to forgetting the big picture is to look at everything close-up. The shortcut to closing a door is to bury yourself in the details. This is how we must look to God. As if everything's fine.

No matter how careful you are, there's going to be the sense you missed something, the collapsed feeling under your skin that you didn't experience it all. There's that fallen heart feeling that you rushed right through the moments where you should've been paying attention. Well, get used to that feeling. That's how your whole life will feel some day.