...up to no good—and pleased about it.

Do not doubt the beauty of your heart.

Knowing the names of things is a way to pay respect to the beauty of the world...

...the more we learn, the more we realize how much we don't know.

We make so many of our own troubles, from mere mishaps to disasters, by dwelling on the possibility of them until the possible becomes inevitable.

All death matters.""Only to the living.

The dead can be even more frustrating to deal with than are many of the living, which is astonishing when you consider it's the living who run the Department of Motor Vehicles.

I never plan for the future but wander into it with a smile on my face, hope in my heart, and the hair up on the nape of my neck.

If there's nothing to learn because we know it all, what's the challenge? Why would the effort matter? What would be the point? - Odd Thomas

Virtue is imaginative, evil repetitive.

In memory, she lived and moved and laughed, but all that a photograph could offer was one frozen moment of a life.

If you desire a joyful heart, dance daily.

If we feel inwardly strong, we will have no need or desire to speak ill of others.

The ear is the avenue to the heart.

I think a child should be allowed to take his father's or mother's name at will on coming of age. Paternity is a legal fiction.

My feelings about myself have been terrible.

I know that if I'd had to go and take an exam for acting, I wouldn't have got anywhere. You don't take exams for acting, you take your courage.

It is never wise to slip the bands of discipline.

If my day, week, or year is going badly, I need not ask of each negative episode or situation whether it has racial overtones.

Most people don't have so much talent that they can become a success all their own. We all need people to help us and lift us up.

Grew up in Stapleton House village, where blood flood the waters in the streets like oil spillage