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

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.

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.

But it was smell that carried memory.

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

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

He who walks with the Saviour, the light of the world, shall never walk in darkness.

The only people who don't want to disclose the truth are the people with something to hide.

As an outsider in America, you do see the kind of hypocrisy that's rampant there.

Nobody remembers the guy who finished second but the guy who finished second.

It is in our DNA to create space, to open up safe places, and to change the atmosphere where we live.

It's taken me longer still to realize what a short span there is between those life experiences and the rest of your life. That's a job for the people who lived through it.

Because of our social circumstances, male and female are really two cultures and their life experiences are utterly different.

I cannot think of permanent enmity between man and man.

People read more mysteries than they do political pamphlets.

When your child is looking up at you and you are putting them to bed at night, and they are just lying there, you have to remind yourself that's what it's all about.