A label doesn't make something so. A label is just a word. It's what a person does that makes them who they are

It never gets easier, missing you. And sometimes I wonder if it ever will.

To his amazement, he could already hear Henry snoring in the backseat. That guy could fall asleep on a car trip to the mailbox.

The worst pain in the world goes beyond the physical. Even further beyond any other emotional pain one can feel. It is the betrayal of a friend.

If you thought eighth grade was tough, try it with fangs and a fear of garlic.

Because teachers, no matter how kind, no matter how friendly, are sadistic and evil to the core.

Bullying is a horrible thing. It sticks with you forever. It poisons you. But only if you let it.

If citizens followed their leaders' example throughout history, the human race would have died out centuries ago.

Getting staked had been a hard lesson in choosing one's friends wisely.

Growing older is mandatory, but growing up is optional.

Sometimes you have to be alone to think, and sometimes the best place for thinking isn't home.

God is not worried about what you have but about who has you.

When you sell a man a book you don't sell him just 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life.

Above all, be true to yourself, and if you cannot put your heart in it, take yourself out of it.

I'm on the last great journey here--and people ant me to tell them what to pack.

That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.

I was a good football player, and I had a chance to play with some great players.

The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.

The people we care for aren't always the one we should

... if one does not have wild dreams of achievement, there is no spur even to get the dishes washed. One must think like a hero to behave like a merely decent human being.

A dogma recognized throughout antiquity... (that) the soul expiates its sins in the darkness of the infernal regions and... afterwards... passes into new bodies, there to undergo new trials.