dreams are shadows cast by truth shining on our darkest secrets

What do you do with your anger when the person you're mad at goes off and dies? Bury it? Bury it inside you?

The problem for me is that I can't ever really see who Gregory is, any more than I can see what a mirror by itself looks like, because he reflects whoever's around him.

Some people fall head over heels. Other people begin to fall without even knowing it—love grows like a spring flower beneath last autumn’s leaves and catches them by surprise.

I glanced up at him. "I love things that are beautiful when you don't expect them to be.

...you canʹt always choose how you love a person. Love isnʹt logical or fair. It just happens.

When you love someone, its never over. You move on, because you have to but you take them with you in your heart

People fear anyone who differs from what is considered normal, and in a small town the idea of normal can be as narrow as the streets.

Words are precious things meant to create, to imagine, to dream with.

old grudges and bitterness always hurt the individual more than the one whom he believes injured him.

Creativity is no excuse for obnoxious behavior

Art--music, painting, sculpture, dance, drama--opens doors to our soul, exposing our lives to whom or what we allow to enter.

Mercy is a contingency plan, devised by the guilty in the eventuality that they are caught. Justice is the domain of the just. - Richard Rahl

It appears first, that liberty is a natural, and government an adventitious right, because all men were originally free.

Success is falling nine times and getting up ten.

The young Dickens was so alive, so self-confident, so funny.

We can often better help another by fanning a glimmer of goodness than by censuring his faults.

People come in and out of our lives to teach us. And we teach other people. It's part of the process. They come in and they go out. Some stay for longer than others.

Every man is entitled to come to Cattle-Show, even a transcendentalist; and for my part I am more interested in the men than in the cattle.

Love is a greater mystery than death.

I go through the motions of living in society