Many people are willing to have Jesus as part of their lives—as long as it doesn’t cost them anything. They may even profess faith in Jesus and join a church. But Jesus to them is almost like an insurance policy—something they obtain and then forget about

You have to let go of your past Keira. These scars you hold are only skin deep, they do not connect to your heart or your soul. These scars do not define you, you define them. They do not represent death and destruction like you think, they represent life

Why did this [Vietnam] war, so hard, so long, so ferocious, vanish from one day to the next as if by magic?Why did this American defeat (the largest reversal in the history of the USA) have no internal repercussions in America? If it had really signified

Napoleon said of Massena, that he was not himself until the battle began to go against him; then, when the dead began to fall in ranks around him, awoke his powers of combination, and he put on terror and victory as a robe. So it is in rugged crises, in u

Maybe I should love someone mundane and let them bore me to death.

At home, I relax by gardening, or just pottering.

That means you're my kid," I explained, "and I'm your mother, and nobody can say it isn't so.

Poetry is partly sympathy, don't you think? If it's any good, it gets people to think about others' points of view.

Every person gets negative things, they learn from those negative things, and you become a positive person.

The only pushup you won't be able to do is the one you never do.

No. Your thoughts are what make you. But your body isn't a meaningless thing either. Call me strange, but I think only the person you love the most should see you like that. And not here--in an ugly, dirty place--when you haven't even thought about it.

When something is as fundamental as trust the danger is that everyone thinks they understand what it is and therefore fail to define it.