Desire sets our compass, but real life steers our course.

Love is how you stay alive, even after you are gone.

When someone is in your heart, they're never truly gone. They can come back to you, even at unlikely times.

Accept who you are; and revel in it.

Death ends a life, not a relationship.

This is part of what a family is about, not just love. It's knowing that your family will be there watching out for you. Nothing else will give you that. Not money. Not fame. Not work.

We all yearn for what we have lost. But sometimes, we forget what we have.

The truth is, once you learn how to die, you learn how to live.

Do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself.

Nothing haunts us like the things we don't say.

Don't cling to things because everything is impermanent.

God's beauty is better by far than anything that comes out of a jar..

America is no longer a country that cares about experts. In fact, it hates experts. If you can't fit a story into the culture-war storyline in ten seconds or less, it dies.

... if fiction does not show us a better life than reality, what is the good of it?

I mean, I don't really pay too much attention publicly to what people think.

This team is one execution away from being a very good basketball team.

I was so shy and so quiet, and the only time I had my own voice and I could really connect with people was when I was singing or on stage.

Wealthier is healthier.

I am an old-fashioned, honest-to-goodness, flag waving patriot.

It's a great time to book vacation travel for the winter, .. After the first of the year, airplanes are empty, resorts are empty, and they are very excited to get early bookings.

To read a novel is a difficult and complex art.