So this is always the key: you have to write the book you love, the book that's alive in your heart. That's the one you have to write.

Nobody gets to pick their time to die, but living every day to the max is something we all get to do.

Pain and suffering are the soil of strength and courage.

None of us truly knows what we'll do when the circumstances become so overwhelming and complex that we can't even tell right from wrong.

For as long as the world spins and the earth is green with new wood, she will lie in this box and not in my arms.

You don't know me, but I know about you...I can't make you live longer. I can't stop you from hurting. But I can give you one wish, as someone did for me.

Who wants to be used? I love to read, so books are my main friends. They're always available, always friendly, and always interesting, and they never make me choose sides.

If I can't wait for you at the end of an aisle on your wedding day, I'll wait for you in heaven.

I wanted to write about the third world and had the opportunity to go live in the trenches, so to speak.

I am very privileged and honored when someone chooses to read a book, especially a book of mine.

But they can't know how the dark space inside me is growing. I lie to them. I can't get out of the dark hole. 'Peace is here' it whispers.

Silence, it appears, is not the opposite of sound. It is another world altogether, literally offering a deeper level of thought, a journey to the bedrock of the self.

A photograph is a click away. A good photograph is a hundred clicks away and a better one, a thousand clicks away

You can't assume the responsibility for everything you do-or don't do.

Baseball hasn't forgotten me. I go to a lot of old-timers games and I haven't lost a thing. I sit in the bullpen and let people throw things at me. Just like old times.

No one can construct for you the bridge upon which precisely you must cross the stream of life, no one but you yourself alone.

How do you tell your mother that you feel you're getting... old? If I'm... old, then what is she?

As you allow the beloved to grow within you, you will discover a steadfastness to the spiritual journey.

They shouldn't call death passing on. They should call it leveling up. Because the game only got harder once I lost. And I was more than a little worried it had only just begun.

Chiropractic has helped keep me injury free - that is half the trick to staying in competition.

Even nowadays a man can't step up and kill a woman without feeling just a bit unchivalrous.