And what do you believe?”A slow smile spread over his face. “I believe in you. You are my new beginning.

Stop longing.You poison today’s ease, reaching always for tomorrow.

I think that old magic draws much of its strength from that acknowledgment: that we are a part of that world.

There is nothing dishonorable about abandoning pain. Sometimes peace is most quickly found when a man simply stops avoiding it.

Leave old pains alone. When they cease coming to call, do not invite them back.

As much as I had always longed to be freed of my duties and obligations, being released from such bonds was as much a severing as an emancipation.

The past is no further away than the last breath you took.

...I've returned and I look around me and think, I've missed my life. While I was off and alone, it went on here, without me, and I'm forever doomed to be a stranger in my own home.

Regrets are useless, " the Fool replied. "All you can do is start from where you are.

Despite my pain, I felt not the regret of an ending, but the foreboding of a beginning.

The day the nation voted on whether I’d live or die, I woke up with a headache.

The student asks: If my redstone necklace had every view of every veil that ever brightened, would I be wise? The master answers: If I had a thousand pieces of a priceless vase, would I be rich?

My first car was a Toyota 4Runner when I was 17. I paid for it myself. I was very happy.

Being a Christan is less about cautiously avoiding sin than about courageously and actively doing God's will.

Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind; it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.

If you can't make it go away, wait it out.

The Republicans would like to take us back to a darker time, when corporations ruled and the underserved had no rights.

And one of our points of continuing conversation with our trading partners is the urgency of their taking steps to remove barriers to their improved growth performance.

President Obama contends that charges he is "not really an American" have been trumped up by you-know-who.

Be kind and merciful. Let no one ever come to you without coming away better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness.