Know this: even if you’re like us and still doddering around above ground, someone out there from your past is probably pretty sure that you’re dead by now. (p.125 )

It doesn’t upset me to think about dying. What upsets me is the idea of John being alone after his spell passes. The idea of one of us without the other. (p.127)

After a while, just staying alive becomes a full-time job. No wonder we need a vacation.

Day and night - ruthlessly apply key lessons of mankind such as leaving greed, fear and lust to improve the efficiency & effectiveness of life.

There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.

My whole life, I've been watching conductors. I was 7 the first time I played with a conductor. Seeing the ones that do it well, it's an amazing thing.

Welcome any change that comes into any phase in your life; insist that it is going to turn out for the better - and it will. See the Angel of God in it, and the Angel of God will make all things new.

I knew I wasn't the person to play Ponyboy because I'm a girl, but without knowing it, I understand that was a place I could put all the stuff that I was feeling.

To teach is to show. You can't teach what you don't know. You can't guide where you don't go. And you can't grow what you don't sow.

I let my boy go and do and say pretty much as he likes, as, and perhaps because, my father kept no string on me.

The worst nightmare for al Qaeda is to come into a community that feels supported and has hope.

Separately there was only wind, water, sail, and hull, but at my hand the four had been given purpose and direction.

You have to see it on a broader level. But you also have to activate it properly.