Books are the most worthy companions to take with you on this bitter-sweet journey known as life.

There are different kinds and degrees of love, and they change over time, ripening and deepening and changing us in the process.

People come in and out of our lives, and each of them helps form who we are and who we are to become.

Be nice to people whether you mean it or not. You never know when a kind word can make a difference in another person’s day – or maybe even his or her life.

Sometimes we laugh to keep from crying, but the important thing is to laugh, every chance we get.

Remember what your mama told you about honey and vinegar: Be nice, and you’ll catch more flies, if nothing else.

Some might say we lose ourselves in a good book. In truth, we find ourselves.

The experience of pleasant, unpleasant, or neutral is the consequences of perception.

I can still make a fist, and breath still burns in my chest. So look at my face. Look at my mortal soul, and remember it. You did not crush me, and you will have the rest of eternity to think on it.

Change the instruments and you will change the entire social theory that goes with them

To allow lust (or strong desires) to govern our life is to exalt our will over God's.

A person desperately searching for love," Merlin said, "reminds me of a fish desperately searching for water.

Every soul has a landscape that changes with the wind that sweeps the sky, with the clouds that return after its rain.

I believe miracles are like seeds. When planted and watered by our attention and appreciation, they bloom.

Never trust a baserunner with a limp. Comes a base hit and you'll think he just got back from Lourdes.

You never know how much you can grow.

...paranormal phenomena such as apports, prediction, telepathy, dowsing and the like can be explained by an extended physics as potentially real effects.