Because I could not stop for death he kindly stopped for me, or paused at least to strike a glancing blow with his sky-blue mouth as he passed.

No other continent has endured such an unspeakably bizarre combination of foreign thievery and foreign goodwill.

A choir of seedlings arching their necks out of rotted tree stumps, sucking life out of death. I am the forest's conscience, but remember, the forest eats itself and lives forever.

Like kids who only ever get socks for Christmas, but still believe with all their hearts in Santa.

Misunderstanding is my cornerstone. It's everyone's, come to think of it. Illusions mistaken for truth are the pavement under our feet.

Listen. Slide the weight from your shoulders and move forward. You are afraid you might forget, but you never will. You will forgive and remember.

I’ve seen how you can’t learn anything when you’re trying to look like the smartest person in the room.

Sugar, it's no parade but you'll get down the street one way or another, so you'd just as well throw your shoulders back and pick up the pace.

Every life is different because you passed this way and touched history.

God doesn’t need to punish us. He just grants us a long enough life to punish ourselves.

If the Lord hasn't got a boyfriend lined up for me to marry, that's his business.

Our wounds are not a measure of one individual’s sad fate, but an indication of our unity with others.

Heaven lies about us in our infancy and the world begins lying about us pretty soon afterward.

You have to just look at it like Titanic: I know the ship sinks, but this is a love story

Time began when you were born. It will end when you die.

I am always making that what I am not capable, in an attempt to learn how to doing it.

There is nothing more depressing than toast that no one eats.

I don't pretend to see the path, but I know it's there all the same. One day, we'll look back and wonder how we ever missed it.

To refuse to accept the call of your best life is to insult the force that created you.

Nothing is more active than thought, for it travels over the universe, and nothing is stronger than necessity for all must submit to it.

Smile. Have you ever noticed how easily puppies make human friends? Yet all they do is wag their tails and fall over.