If I could just stay alive for a week, I’d know the unwritten secrets of Anna’s mom and the Dutch Tulip Guy.

Some tourists think Amsterdam is a city of sin, but in truth it is a city of freedom. And in freedom, most people find sin.

Amsterdam is like the rings of a tree: It gets older as you get closer to the center.

I feel like crying, so I must be crying, but it's impossible to tell because I'm underwater.

...And in freedom, most people find sin.

So I walked back to my room and collapsed on the bottom bunk, thinking that if people were rain, I was drizzle and she was a hurricane.

A taste so profound and complex that it can't even be compared to other tastes, only to emotions. Cheesy waffles, I was thinking, tastes like love without the fear of love's dissolution.

My thoughts are stars I cannot fathom into constellations.

The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.

All those paper people living in their paper houses, burning the future to stay warm.

I would always love Alaska Young, my crooked neighbor, with all my crooked heart.

Age is only a number. Maturity to a large extent is dependent on your exposure to life, its experiences and your lessons from them.

There are horrors beyond life's edge that we do not suspect, and once in a while man's evil prying calls them just within our range.

it's much better to do good in a way that no one knows anything about it.

Quebec is the original heart the hardest and deepest kernel the core of first time. All round nine other provinces form the flesh of this still-bitter fruit called Canada.

But if there is one thing clearly and plainly laid down about election, it is this: that elect men and women may be known and distinguished by holy lives.

We are never further from what we wish than when we believe that we have what we wished for.

Every photo you take communicates something about a moment in time - a brief slice of time of where you were, who you were with, and what you were doing.

We all have a dark place in us. It's what we do with it and the choice we make.

Scientific inquiry shouldn't stop just because a reasonable explanation has apparently been found.

Words engage our minds, but in the silence we hear the Presence of God.