I am amazed that there are still nights when I sleep well.

Do not doubt the beauty of your heart.

Knowing the names of things is a way to pay respect to the beauty of the world...

...the more we learn, the more we realize how much we don't know.

We make so many of our own troubles, from mere mishaps to disasters, by dwelling on the possibility of them until the possible becomes inevitable.

All death matters.""Only to the living.

The dead can be even more frustrating to deal with than are many of the living, which is astonishing when you consider it's the living who run the Department of Motor Vehicles.

I never plan for the future but wander into it with a smile on my face, hope in my heart, and the hair up on the nape of my neck.

If there's nothing to learn because we know it all, what's the challenge? Why would the effort matter? What would be the point? - Odd Thomas

Virtue is imaginative, evil repetitive.

In memory, she lived and moved and laughed, but all that a photograph could offer was one frozen moment of a life.

Success and the pursuit of it can nourish your body, but only significance has the ability to nourish your mind, body and spirit.

Mere change is not growth. Growth is the synthesis of change and continuity, and where there is no continuity there is no growth.

Hurricane Katrina was caused by political correctness. I said it!

I pray for people I love when they are sick. I pray that way.

Today osteoporosis affects more than 75 million people in the United States, Europe and Japan and causes more than 2.3 million fractures in the USA and Europe alone.

I lost my job as a cricket commentator for saying "I don't want to bore you with the details".

Yeah, writers do hate writing.

Love is a believing creature.

Now, inventiveness and empathy, those qualities, if they're together in the same person, you've got an entrepreneurial genius. But they do tend to be slightly separate.

He has every attribute of a dog except loyalty.