But it was smell that carried memory.

The path of your life can change in an instant.

A loving soul was always more beautiful over the long haul, but actual prettiness was fleeting.

She spilled rice on my knee, and she smiled. I wanted her to spill a thousand things on me, lava, acid, bricks, anything, and smile each time

People sometimes talk about the power of first impressions, and believe me, there is truth to it.

I did the searching and remembering, she did the disappearing and the forgetting.

Love who you love while you have them. That's all you can do. Let them go when you must. If you know how to love, you'll never run out.

Love demands everything, they say, but my love demands only this: that no matter what happens or how long it takes, you'll keep faith in me, you'll remember who we are, and you'll never feel despair.

You have been with me from the very first life. You are my first memory every time, the single thread in all of my lives. It's you who makes me a person.

How could you cleanse yourself if you couldn’t forget?

Even exciting places are boring most of the time. Wars. Movie sets. Emergency rooms.

Creativity finds its own creator.

We get one shot at this thing called life. Let's make it matter.

There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.

Christmas was about understanding that servanthood would win the hearts of men for eternity, where raw power might win them only for a moment, if at all.

The greyhound that starts many hares kills none.

The outline is 95 percent of the book. Then I sit down and write, and that's the easy part.

I love the communication aspect with my athletes. I like the one on one time with my athletes but really its about making them better athletes and finding out what makes them tick.

You live in my heart where no one sees you but I do. That vision becomes this art.

Everything that kills me , makes me feel alive

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