"No one talks about the personality shift as you get older. Where you no longer want to be impressive, you want to be rested. You want to be regulated and completely unavailable to anything that drains you."

"Don't let fears of what could go wrong stand in the way of what could go right."

"Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again."

"God doesn't want something from us. He simply wants us."

"Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality."

"God wants a child's heart and a grownup's head."