The usual pretext of those who make others unhappy is that they do it for their own good.
When things fall apart, the broken pieces allow all sorts of things to enter, and one of them is the presence of God.
I believe still today what I have always believed: that God is good, that the world He made is extraordinary, and that His comfort is like nothing else on earth.
In many cases, change is not a function of life's cruelty but instead a function of God's graciousness.
Use what you have, use what the world gives you. Use the first day of fall: bright flame before winter's deadness; harvest; orange, gold, amber; cool nights and the smell of fire. Our tree-lined streets are set ablaze, our kitchens filled with the smells of nostalgia: apples bubbling into sauce, roasting squash, cinnamon, nutmeg, cider, warmth itself. The leaves as they spark into wild color just before they die are the world's oldest performance art, and everything we see is celebrating one last violently hued hurrah before the black and white silence of winter.
Sometimes the happiest ending isn't the one you keep longing for, but something you absolutely cannot see from where you are
If we pay attention to our tears, they'll show us something about ourselves.
One Power alone makes a Poet: Imagination. The Divine Vision.
For me, Paul Scholes is on the same level as Ronaldo. The real Ronaldo, not Cristiano. I always thought he was a great player but after I played alongside him I realised he was Manchester United's greatest player of all time. He did his talking on the pitch which I respected most.
Can you hate someone for what they have done, but still love them for whom they had been?
Few things are as psychologically brutal as chess.