Perhaps not all spirits are meant for this world, but they pass through anyway and change for the better those which are.

Death is just the moment that your hourglass runs out of sand. That's it. It happens to everyone eventually. All any of us gets to decide is where the sand falls.

We should trust people to be exactly what they have proven themselves to be, no more and no less.

I forgive him and like water draining from the sand after a wave, the power he held over me disappears. A slow smile rises on my face.

Hey, Jimmy.”“Yeah.”“You ever think about how long we’re going to live?”“No, ” he says. “Not really.”“Well, why not?”“I dunno. Guess I’m too busy livin’ it to think about it.

I remember in treatment, Mr. Shaw told me that the alcohol and drugs never were my problem. He said the alcohol and drugs were my solution and that was my problem. And he was right.

Caterpillar dun' become butterfly-caterpillar die so butterfly can be. A new thing. We all must let ourselves die to be what we will be. But we cling to what we know.

Indeed it is generally the case that men are readier to call rogues clever than simpletons honest, and are ashamed of being the second as they are proud of being the first.

The world is neither good nor bad.Don’t judge it, just love it.

The list of women to potentially be on a major party ticket, in both parties, is embarrassingly short.

I wasn't interested in exploiting myself.

One must wage war against his predominant passion and not retreat until, with God's help, he has been victorious.

If I had to choose between baseball’s Hall of Fame and first class citizenship for all of my people. I would say first-class citizenship.

Elinor agreed with it all, for she did not think he deserved the compliment of rational opposition.

We never understood the concept of people going onstage and giving anything less than 100 percent. Maybe that's a blue-collar work ethic, but I call it just ethics.

Society needs first of all to be free from meddlersthat is, to be let alone.