You make the rest of the beautiful things in the world cry for even trying at all. You make it hard for me to breathe.

Blake took her face in his hands. “You let me touch you. Kiss you. Your skin? It feels like piano keys. My hands know just where to go.

Don't tie your success to anything other than what's inside you

In that moment? I knew you were sent to me, that I'd been given nothing from the people in my life, but I think from God, or whoever is in charge, I got you.

True love, the kind that lasts forever, is very rare indeed. It takes compromise, continued growth, and trust.

Fear, to a great extent, is born of a story we tell ourselves...

My father used to say that when hunting a shark, we should either kill it or let it go. To cage a shark is sheer cruelty, and I cannot live like a shark in a cage any longer.

Prayer for today:Dear Lord, the eternal ecstatic joy within me is often turned into bondage by my labeling mind. Please, give me some meditative wisdom.

Cinema for me only has meaning when it has a relationship with what I see outside on the street.

You win and lose as a team.

Ignorance of the law excuses no man; not that all men know the law, but because 'tis an excuse every man will plead, and no man can tell how to refute him.

. . . the mind is desperate to fix the river {of events} in place: Possessed by ideas of the past, preoccupied with images of the future, it overlooks the plain truth of the moment.

The only noble thing a man can do with money is to build a schooner.

I go to great lengths to make certain situations feel right to the reader.

If you are digging for excellent or suggestive renderings, this is among the richer mines.