Grief is a funny thing because you don't have to carry it with you for the rest of your life. After a bit you set it down by the roadside and walk on and leave it.

It is better to travel hopefully than to arrive. Arrival often brings nothing but a sense of desolation and disappointment.

Life is so extraordinary. Wonderful surprises are just around the most unexpected corners.

Writing is work, but it's also a compulsion, and once you get your characters on paper, you can't abandon them. You have to respond to them.

It was good, and nothing good is truly lost. It stays part of a person, becomes part of their character. So part of you goes everywhere with me. And part of me is yours, forever

Happiness is making the most of what you have, and riches is making the most of what you've got.

She put out her hand and touched his forearm, as she would have touched some piece of porcelain or sculpture, just for the sheer animal pleasure of feeling its shape and curve beneath her fingertips.

The greatest gift a parent can leave a child is that parent's own independence.

And the wicked thing is, that when we're really upset, we always take it out on the people who are closest and whom we love the most.

Things happen they way they're meant to. There's a pattern and a shape to everything...Nothing happens without a reason...Nothing is impossible...(Page 180).

There's a war on. We don't know how anything's going to end. We just have to grasp each fleeting moment of joy as it whizzes by.

Even on my worst day I'm Kill'n it!

Tonight I miss you like the sky misses his moon

King shrugged and looked back at Harlen. "Please tell me you have a plan. Because my baby girl really likes to color with me.

All the trials we endure cannot be compared to these interior battles.

Rise or fall, we will live on

If you fall, I will catch you. I will be waiting, time after time.

The keen spirit Seizes the prompt occasion, makes the thought Start into instant action, and at once Plans and performs, resolves and executes!

David Ortiz is a genius. He's incredible to watch. Over and over, he hits home runs that are simply transcendent.

That mysterious independent variable of political calculation, Public Opinion.

President Obama and I can meet, shake hands and discuss current issues, we - and I am personally - are always ready for such contacts.