Is there anything more heartbreaking than drowning in sight of land? Is there a single one of us who hasn't at least once felt haunted by the fear of slipping away within sight of a safe haven?

That's the strange thing about a good story. No pleasure if you can't share it.

With no other choices open to us, we'd turned our gaze seaward. The oceans were our America: they reached farther than any prairie, untamed as on the first day of creation. Nobody owned them.

They were probably scared of him and so they did what boys do around any object of fear: they went up close, pointed a finger, gave it a nickname, and masked their terror with roaring laughter.

They all lived so steeped in fear that the losses they had yet to suffer had already consumed them.

There was plenty for the eye to feast on, but nothing for the soul. He had a hunger for something that no sky could satisfy. Somewhere on the planet there had to be a different kind of light.

Nature was neither fair nor unfair. Those terms belonged to the world of men.

Your roots aren't to be found in your childhood so much as in your child. It's he who provides your link to the world, and home is wherever he is.

Loss was a night that never ended.

We were familiar with the line that separates grief from madness, and we know that sometimes the only way to stay on the right side of it is to scream.

Her grief was a burden so heavy, he came close to collapsing under it, and yet he couldn't lay it down.

You can't be paralyzed by fear of failure or you will never push yourself.

He was a man's man: an expert on the golf course, a force to be dealt with in business, and a Texan through and through--and proud of it.

To be recipient to God’s love on earth is to share a deep, intrinsic need to love and be loved

Nothing is so hard that it can't be found by searching.

Once people get to the promise land, they have to perform miracles by themselves.

When I was a kid, I liked Superman. When I got a little older, I liked Wolverine. And then I found girls.

Artists have a sensibility that others don't have. They have a way of reading into the future.

New images surround us everywhere. They are invisible only because of sterile routine convention and fear.

You can be free. You can be black. Look at me! I'm the Heavyweight Champion! Can't nobody stop me.

It all changed when I realized I'm not the only one on the planet who's scared. Everyone else is, too.