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

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.

I was like a thought slipping through the fissures...

Summer, dropping so easily a delicious everything upon your skin and lips. Like a never-ending kiss - taunting, deep, and luscious.

I hooked up my accelerator pedal in my car to my brake lights. I hit the gas, people behind me stop, and I'm gone.

I want to be cremated so people won't come to worship at my bones.

I watch sports and cable news. I’m a political junkie, so that’s my interest.

As actors, we react to the material that's out there, and I probably just react more strongly to things that I feel will have some social value.

My dad recently reminded me that my grandfather's cousin was Lefty Frizzell.

For me, spiritual means love in action. So if you are working for love, then you are a spiritual person.

Sometime in the first billion years, life appeared on the earth's surface. Slowly, the fossil record indicates, living organisms climbed the ladder from simple to more advanced forms.

Leaders, whatever the size of their organizations, are those willing to put the interests of other people before their own.

The mind of man is this world's true dimension; and knowledge is the measure of the mind.