You become the monster you fear the worst, so the monster won't overtake you.

Your life is an occasion. Rise to it.

You have to know where you were going in order to get there.

Turn the page, continue reading, and let the next story begin.

No. We breathe. We pulse. We regenerate. Our hearts beat. Our minds create. Our souls ingest. 37 seconds, well used, is a lifetime.

There are a million things one might do with a block of wood. But what do you think might happen if someone, just once, believed in it?

Mrs. Reed grabbed Kayla's wrist. "Good. You haven't gotten that damned tattoo. Whatever you do, don't let them make you get it.

We humans can never claim to do nothing, we breath, we pulse, we regenerate.

And if anyone asks what became of me, you relate my life in all its wonder, and end it with a simple and modest "He died.

It'll be okay." She didn't know if it would be okay or not. She somehow doubted it, but what else was there to say?

Birds fascinated her. How did they do that, seeming to fly with one mind, each of them able to anticipate what the others would do?

I believe it is the woman in the relationship that drives the relationship to what she wants it to be

Imagine trusting silence more than any thought you can come up with.

Everyone should fail in a big way at least once before reaching forty.

Where a people prays, there is the church; and where the church is; there is never loneliness.

Well, your greatest joy definitely comes from doing something for another, especially when it was done with no thought of something in return.

I do not remember joy or sorrow in childhood, but listening for clues.

There are so many sitcoms. So, when you get to be a part of something that feels exciting to you, you just want to be a part of it.

Government does best when it helps people help themselves. Human dignity is found not in a handout but in being able to do for one's self.

It was Richepin who said somewhere, 'The love of art means loss of real love'... True, but on the other hand, real love makes you disgusted with art.

Heaven takes care that no man secures happiness by crime.