Home gives you something no other place can... your history. Home is where your history begins.

...tell them that we have some good in us, too. And the only thing worth living for is the good. That’s why we’ve got to make sure we pass it on.

Home is the place that'll catch you when you fall. And we all fall.

And the needles of the pine trees, freshly washed to a deep, rich green, shimmered with droplets that blinked like clear crystals.

Come on, Forney.' Novalee, it's a parasite.' But it's a tradition.' It's a parasite! And you expect people yo stand under it and kiss?' Yes! it's what people do with mistletoe.

She always set three alarms for fear that the first employees to arrive would discover her sleeping - a Goldilocks without her bears

Our lives can change with every breath we take.

You ever think about this? Every year you live, you pass the anniversary of your death. Now you don't know what day it is, of course.

Never act like you want it, darlin'. Act like you wouldn't own it if they paid you. Tell them it's dirty, broken...a useless thing. Then make an offer.

Novalee watched his lips shape the words...the sounds, like whispered secrets, hanging in the air.

Only Certain offered no enticements, for she knew nothing could ease the pain. Not books or photography or food. Not even love.

The truth is, I was always a dreamer, but then I met you, and I knew I will never dream a better dream again.

I am convinced that most Americans of the new generation have no idea what a decent forest looks like. The only way to tell them is to show them.

Yet she also longed for moments when she might be weak, when she need not prove anything to anyone.

True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar

He who never sacrificed a present to a future good or a personal to a general one can speak of happiness only as the blind speak of color.

Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.

Let me hold on to this the way it was, before I knew anything else.

I don't like a lot of the stuff that goes on in the art world, but it's hard to be old and like what goes on around you.

We look for God as though he were not already here.

I think I've found out who I am and what we've been looking for. We don't have to search for my identity anymore. This is it-we're doing it!