Other people keep our souls alive, just like food and water does with our body.

I can't do it. It would be like, say, trying to fall in love with somebody, or trying to convince yourself that your favorite food is pancakes. You don't decide those things, they just happen to you. If God is real, He needs to happen to me.

I fell in love with books. Some people find beauty in music, some in painting, some in landscape, but I find it in words. By beauty, I mean the feeling you have suddenly glimpsed another world, or looked into a portal that reveals a kind of magic or romance out of which the world has been constructed, a feeling there is something more than the mundane, and a reason for our plodding.

Suffering ceases to be suffering when you have a redemptive perspective.

Nothing is going to change in congo until you and i figure out what is wrong with the person inside the mirror

There are two types of men in this world--one is looking for a woman to make his life complete and the other is looking for a woman to join his complete life.

Great stories move through fear.