You don't have to have one emotion at a time.

The greatest gift you can give anyone is your undivided attention.

If I'd waited until I was well rested to read, I never would have read anything.

We all have a lot more to read than we can read and a lot more to do than we can do.

Reading isn't the opposite of doing, it's the opposite of dying.

I was learning that when you're with someone who is dying, you may need to celebrate the past, live the present, and mourn the future all at the same time.

We’re all in the end-of-our-life book club, whether we acknowledge it or not; each book we read may well be the last, each conversation the final one.

You can truly miss characters. Not like you miss people, but you can still miss them.

That’s one of the things books do. They help us talk. But they also give us something we all can talk about when we don’t want to talk about ourselves.

In an idealized world, we would all be able to do what our English teachers told us to do, which is to write beautiful prose where enthusiasm is conveyed by word choice and grammar.

Evil almost always starts with small cruelties.

At the end of the day, you control your happiness at peace.

The day you learn to be publically specific in your prayer, that is the day you will discover power.

You never conquer a mountain. You stand on the summit a few moments then the wind blows your footprints away.

The HARDEST PART about BREAKING UP is the next day, opening your notebook only you see I LOVE YOU scribbled all over.

They say people from small towns have big dreams and that pretty much describes me. I had big dreams growing up and I'm still a dreamer.

I was a terrible dancer. I dance like an Englishman.

The end of education is to see men made whole, both in competence and in conscience.

My lyrics say I have morals, I have confidence, I have weaknesses, I have strong points, that I am a human being.

I love acting. I'm actually a very emotional actor.

The end of a life is always vivifying.