You want the good life? You live where white people live, you go to school where white people go to school, and you shop where white people shop.

Everybody likes to have a place to think, to meditate, to eat a burrito.

If you let people into your life a little bit, they can be pretty damn amazing.

He loved her, of course, but better than that, he chose her, day after day. Choice: that was the thing.

Life is a constant struggle between being an individual and being a member of the community.

If you teach kids how to tell stories, they have a better chance at everything.

What kind of life can you have in a house without books?

Don't live up to your stereotypes.

When you resort to violence to prove a point, you’ve just experienced a profound failure of imagination.

If one reads enough books one has a fighting chance. Or better, one's chances of survival increase with each book one reads.

Do you know why the Indian rain dances always worked? Because the Indians would keep dancing until it rained.

It is necessary to fall in love – the better to provide an alibi for all the despair we are going to feel anyway.

Every time we deny ourselves in order to serve someone else, we grow in Christ.

Before a brain can register a thought, a mind must think it... every step of the way is mind over matter... We override our brains all the time.

I have never seen snow and do not know what winter means.

The soul of all is one soul and the truth is one truth, under whatever religion it is hidden.

I didn't think he was a robot...but I did wonder if his emotions had been designed out of him. Of course, with a guy, how could I tell? Ha ha!

Nothing you will object to," James replied in a soothing tone. I cannot think how he came to imagine that he would know what I might or might not object to.

The children of any nation are its future. A country, a movement, a person that does not value its youth and children does not deserve its future.

If I don't wield the sword, I can't protect you. If I keep wielding the sword, I can't embrace you. -Ichigo Kurosaki

We came into the world like brother and brother, And now let's go hand in hand, not one before another.