I realized it for the first time in my life: there is nothing but mystery in the world, how it hides behind the fabric of our poor, browbeat days, shining brightly, and we don't even know it.

If you need something from somebody always give that person a way to hand it to you.

Stories have to be told or they die, and when they die, we can't remember who we are or why we're here.

I'm tired of carrying around the weight of the world. I'm just going to lay it down now. It's my time to die, and it's your time to live. Don't mess it up.

Nothing is fair in this world. You might as well get that straight right now

Every living creature on the earth is special. You want to be the one that puts an end to one of them?

We are so limited, you have to use the same word for loving Rosaleen as you do for loving Coke with peanuts. Isn't that a shame we don't have many more ways to say it?

There is nothing perfect...only life.

And when you get down to it, Lily, that is the only purpose grand enough for a human life. Not just to love but to persist in love.

Actually, you can be bad at something...but if you love doing it, that will be enough. - August Boatwright

He'd gone to church for forty years and was only getting worse. It seemed like this should tell God something.

View Conflict as an Adventure not a threat.

Tell Evil men of your sins and they will use it against you Tell a sinner of your sins and they will pray for you

Doesn't it show us all that we are silly little boys or fatuous asses to think that we can play golf without making a lot of bad shots?

I still haven't gotten that little something out of my system that I'm still not a kid going to a football game. I'm excited.

There is the expectation that a younger generation has the opportunity to redeem the crimes and failings of their elders and would have the strength and idealism to do so.

I stood in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs, A palace and a prison on each hand.

in the beginning William Shakespeare was a baby, and knew absolutely nothing. He couldn't even speak.

You put on a pair of Louboutins and the world changes colour.

Every evil is a sickness of soul, but virtue offers the cause of its health.

I think jazz is good, but I don't enjoy it. It's not for me.