I'd be somewhat of a lousy writer if I didn't know what to say.

The only thing better than a well-read book is a well-read book only read by yourself.

Reading for enjoyment won't die altogether, but this Ereader device has the potential to repel those less imaginative from fiction. And that could have an undesirable domino effect.

With a little bit of spirit in her system to help her weave the lies and facts together, Emily told the partial truth.

The only thing more interesting than the truth is fiction dressed up as the truth.

We go round and round trying to convince one another that our opinion makes more sense. And the only winner is time for making us look like fools by wasting it.

If that's the example you want set, you be the example.

I tried to kill myself when I was thirteen but failed. That was the greatest failure of my life.

Young lovers. If you get it right, it's amazing what you can share. The challenging part is maintaining it.

No one knows if something works until it actually works. That's why you must always try.

Fear doesn't gain respect. It just makes people do what you want to shut you up and get you away from them.

Happiness simply cannot be relied upon as a measure of success.

When I leave this earthly home and go up to God to dwell, someone will look on the heaped up grave and whisper, "She tried to do well.

I understood it in my bones. Longing made the music bigger.

What you do doesn’t define you. You can’t let your failures, or your success for that matter, dictate how you view yourself. You are loved.

Corporations aren’t people. People are people.

We must take human nature as we find it, perfection falls not to the share of mortals.

We have to determine our theology from the Word of God, not from what we feel.

Amy: I had something I wanted to tell him. Stuff always gets in the way. Canton: Stuff does that.

As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope.

The belief that youth is the happiest time of life is founded on fallacy. The happiest person is the person who thinks the most interesting thoughts, and we grow happier as we grow older.