The resistance that you fight physically in the gym and the resistance that you fight in life can only build a strong character.
One can sometimes do good by being the right person in the wrong place.
To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
Those who leave the tradition of truth do not escape into something which we call Freedom. They only escape into something else, which we call Fashion.
Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
You'll never find the solution if you don't see the problem.
On the third day the friends of Christ coming at daybreak to the place found the grave empty and the stone rolled away. In varying ways they realized the new wonder; but even they hardly realized that the world had died in the night. What they were looking at was the first day of a new creation, with a new heaven and a new earth; and in a semblance of the gardener God walked again in the garden, in the cool not of the evening but of the dawn.
A lump rises in our throat at the sight of beauty from an implicit knowledge that the happiness it hints at is the exception.
I don't really write plots. I use history as the engine that drives everything.
I think the job of a comedian is to make people laugh, but also challenge them to laugh at things they didn't know they could until now.
A person with grace is somebody who's socially graceful or is a classy person, but sometimes you just feel the opposite of that, and you just feel like a jerk and a loser and a weirdo.