When you only do what is expected of you, you never learn what you would've done had you chosen for yourself.

When you only do what is expected of you, you never learn what you would've done had you chosen for yourself.

No one thinks much about their ability to breathe; they just do it. It's when a person can't breathe, that they suddenly realize they'd been doing something truly marvelous all along.

The past hadn't been erased just because a new future had been handed it.

Sometimes asking God for a reason for something is like asking Him why the sky is blue. There is a complex, scientific reason for it, Claire, but most children, including you, are content with knowing it is blue because it is. If we understood everything about everything, we would have no need for faith.

Confidence tends to minimize the magnitude of the choice.

We are born knowing how to be just. And we die knowing we spent a lifetime pretending we didn't.