I don't have any of the answers, son. Never did. All I can do is keep asking the questions. Keep trying to make sense of why people do what they do.

Books are like truth serum-- if you don't read, you can't figure out what's real.

The only real treasure is in your head. Memories are better than diamonds and nobody can steal them from you

I believe that we have the ability to change our lives using our imaginations. Imagination is a muscle—the more you use it, the stronger it gets.

Every word is part of a picture, Every sentence is a picture. All you have to do is link them together.

I could tell you all the medical terminology,' She says. 'But what finally happened is his heart got to big for his body'

remembering is a great invention of the mind, and if you try hard enough you can remember anything, whether it really happened or not.

I'm thinking maybe letting the latches burn is the right idea. Let everything burn until there's nothing left but ashes and cool rain.

It all boils down to this: A person has only two options in life, to do something or to do nothing.

His heart was simply to big for his body.

Keep marching boys and girls. Keep marching

Sugar, it's no parade but you'll get down the street one way or another, so you'd just as well throw your shoulders back and pick up the pace.

It means that the things that make us human often make us ill.

I had to go outside. I had to let the element of chance in.

I don't believe in pessimism.

For me, I think the Lord wanted me to win to put a smile on Chinese people's faces.

Nothing is so tiresome to one's self, as well as so odious to others, as disguise and affectation.

If a business has to be told that it needs more focus, accountability and decisiveness, there is a bigger problem at hand.

One of the things that has always motivated me to write is the desire to get it out and look at it in an objective way, so that it doesn't cause me any serious pain by staying inside.

Anger itself does more harm than the condition which aroused anger.

Truth and Good are one; and Beauty dwells in them, and they in her.