I want to make my mark,' he says. But what target, I wonder, are you going to hit?

I took that smile and I put it right where the hole in my chest was. It was better than coffee, or chocolate, or a perfect pirouette. I clutched it and held it tight.

Hello and good-bye are not as simple as everyone thinks.

Silent is the ruined land. Man is brutal and the rain does not wash away the pain or rid the distant memory. It makes it glisten.

It was amazing what I could remember about myself when I retraced my own steps.

Everyone got older but forgot to grow up.

Who needs a stupid grampa-loving, book-reading, good-smelling boy who I like to talk to?

It's a fact of life. Hearts are always hurting. And yet they still keep pumping.

I smile a lot. I heard someone say once that it takes fewer muscles to smile than to frown, so i'm trying it out.

Is there any other way to be? I mean, this is it. This is my body, my soul; I gotta live with it. I'd better get comfortable. I plan on taking it for a long ride.

A shame really, because putting the right book in the right kid’s hands is kind of like giving that kid superpowers.

wasn’t no bit of me willing to ride shotgun to my own funeral.

Take your pleasure seriously.

You probably have to trust that your work is following certain themes and certain movements, but then the rest is a kind of piecing together so that the whole becomes larger than the parts.

God does not lead all His servants by one road, nor in one way, nor at one time; for God is in all things; and that man is not serving God aright, who can only serve Him in his own self-chosen way.

We do not run from the troubles and dangers that are truly ours, and it is better to learn what they are earlier than later, and if we don't run from the others, we are fools.

it's better to be crazy on one point and happy, than sane on all points and unhappy.

Commit yourself to the noble struggle for human rights. You will make a greater person of yourself, a greater nation of your country and a finer world to live in.

I like to hang out with my friends, go to the theatre, watch DVDs, read, play with my niece.

It's easy to be a victim. Look how easy the Democrat Party has made almost half this country think they're victims of something.

They motivate us to play, be affectionate, seek adventure and be loyal.