People are good or half good or a quarter good, and it changes all the time- but even on the best day nobody's perfect.

There's a part of me that thinks perhaps we go on existing in a place even after we've left it.

Literature can remind us that not all life is already written down: there are still so many stories to be told.

The repeated lies become history, but they don't necessarily become the truth.

We stumble on, thinks Jaslyn, bring a little noise into the silence, find in others the ongoing of ourselves. It is almost enough.

They told me Corrigan smashed all the bones in his chest when he hit the steering wheel. I thought, Well at least in heaven his Spanish chick'll be able to reach in and grab his heart.

I'm only telling you on the truth, " he said. "If you can't stand the truth, don't ask for it.

Rather he consoled himself with the fact that, in the real world, when he looked closely into the darkness he might find the presence of a light, damaged and bruised, but a little light all the same.

That's what I like about God. You get to know Him by His occasional absence.

Pain's nothing. Pains what you give, not what you get.

Nothing was simple, certainly not simplification.

If everyone could be a successful and rich author, there would be no point in working so hard. Where is the fun in that?

Happiness and joy are both decisions and choices you must make every day.

I heard that I am your biggest disappointment, yet, in my heart, I know and feel that I am the greatest version of myself ever and celebrate myself each and every day

Behind an able man there are always other able men.

People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed; never throw out anyone.

If you play it safe, middle of the road with all the right notes, you might win. If you are unique and have too much personality, you might easily score a '0' in competition.

Consistency is the quality of a stagnant mind.

It's more important to be interesting, to be vivid, and to be adventurous than to sit pretty for pictures.

Physician, heal thyself.

The weight is off my shoulders. I don't live in the past anymore. I look forward, instead of back.