I've never begged. not for anything... except my mother's love.And that was a useless waste of time.

Sometimes you simply made the wrong choice and you had to live with it. You could only change the future.

I am like some wounded animal in a darkened lair, nursing the thorn in my paw, unable to find anyone to take it out.

Memories are who we are, Tul. In the end, that’s all the luggage you take with you. Love and memories are what last.

Marah will come looking for me one day, Kate had said, pressing the journal into my hands. Be with her when she reads it. And my boys… show them these words when they can’t remember me.

Creation is filled with soul-sick folks, colored and white, never knowing where they belong. They tangle everybody else up in their grief.

If I am to be a skeleton in a box buried deep into the ground, I pray you will be the dust that rests atop my bones.

A man is what he thinks about all day long.

I believe God is everything, say Shug. Everything that is or ever was or ever will be. And when you can feel that, and be happy to feel that, you've found It.

I don't give a damn about any actors. What good will John Barrymore do you with the bases loaded and two down in a tight ball game. Either I get the money (more than Barrymore), or I don't play!

To be human you must bear witness to justice.

Sometimes you don't realize you've crossed a line until you're on the other side and can't go back.

Mindfulness is not about getting anywhere else.

On November 15th, 2008, in over 300 cities, 4,000 children were adopted in one day.

The battle for the world is the battle for definitions.