Because when you're posed, you know someone's watching. You put on your very best smile. You let your sweetest personality shine.

The main thing I wanted to say, and thankfully it’s what most people say they get out of the book, is simply an acknowledgement that we do affect each other in ways we can’t predict.

No one knows for certain how much impact they have on the lives of other people. Oftentimes, we have no clue. Yet we push it just the same.

You can hear rumors. But you can't know them.

You can't stop the future You can't rewind the past The only way to learn the secret ...is to press play.

I've always loved brainstorming with other writers, and I consider having my work critiqued a part of that brainstorming.

And at some point, the struggle becomes too much-too tiring-and you consider letting go. Allowing tragedy... or whatever... to happen.

You can't go back to how things were. How you thought they were. All you really have is...now.

Everything...affects everything

After all, how often do we get a second chance?

In the end....everything matters.

If you would create something, you must be something.

If you can believe, you be made well.

For all the sirens, game-show buzzers, and drum-rolls of life, it is the nature of men to die quietly.

Were the seeds of next things always there, in the circle of the year, and was that how the world worked its miracles?

It’s a known fact that in certain contexts people’s great strengths become their epic failings.

It is only the very wisest and the very stupidest who never change.

It was very, very challenging being on this thing called the gimbal. It would throw you around, give you whiplash, and they'd tie you down.

Feel the needs of others more than your own.

When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable If I have not an excellent library.

Why do Canadians like to do it doggie style? So they can both keep watching the hockey game