I know from vast experience that fear talks a lot louder than courage. I need to listen to that other voice inside me, that faint one that's struggling to be heard.

Let bygones be bygones because everybody knew that forgiveness was divine.

When you least expect to recall something, a memory can pop up like an uninvited guest on your doorstep.

Life, it is not simple like a garden, where flowers are always flowers and weeds are always weeds.

Memories are so two-faced. One minute they're hugging you like a long-lost friend, the next minute they're ripping you apart like your worst enemy.

...things happen when you least expect them. Things that can change your whole life.

...things can happen when you least expect them so you always gotta be prepared. And pay attention to the details. The devil is in the details.

Beauty can help fill the cracks in people’s hearts and comfort their souls.

Good to know we're all twelve years old mentally. Keeps things in perspective.

Don't do anything that you wouldn't feel comfortable reading about in the newspaper the next day.

Even though human life may be the most precious thing on earth, we always behave as if there were something of higher value than human life.

We're very good in America at talking about stuff, often stuff to buy. We tend to talk about our iPods. We tend to talk about cars or new fads.

They told us to buy duct tape and portable radios so that if the world does end, we can all listen to Rush Limbaugh blame it on Clinton.

Desire is the presentiment of our inner abilities, and the forerunner of our ultimate accomplishments.

I've decided I am going to start loving my backside because I don't know anyone who does that. And for my daughter, I want to be able to say to her, 'I love this.'

The only exercise I take is walking behind the coffins of friends who took exercise.

There is a saying in the Islands. Beware the women of the warrior class, for all they touch is both decorative and deadly.-Yuki