If you're always battling against getting older, you're always going to be unhappy, because it's going to happen anyhow.

I think what you notice most when you haven’t been home in a while is how much the trees have grown around your memories.

No one gets left behind, remember?

Strangers are family you haven't recognize yet

Desire sets our compass, but real life steers our course.

Don't let our outside labels or how fervent we look or zealous we are or how righteous we seem; that's not how you measure yourself against other people. Everyone is a child of God; if we really believed that, we'd treat each other better.

It’s not contagious, you know. Death is as natural as life. It’s part of the deal we made.