It occurred to her that all the bad parts of life, the sad parts, the frightening ones, were meant to be offset by moments and memories like this. She had to be present in it, right here, right now.

Dreams shape the kind of human beings we become. Not having a dream gave me a smaller future and made me a smaller person.

It took vulnerability to forge strength, the way true courage required fear.

So many of the things she had found lately hadn't been precisely lost. But she wasn't found without them.

You're torn between wanting to be closer and wanting to push me away, " he said. "So I vote for closer. I'll always vote for closer.

The Only Person I'm Prejudice Against, is The Lazy One!

Who’s driving the boat?”Over the motor, I heard girls screaming at us the instant before we crashed.

If you're successful and stressed out, you're succeeding in spite of your stress, not because of it.

My mother warned me to avoid things colored red.

There are a lot of people who will give money or materials, but very few who will give time and affection.

In our willingness to give that which we seek, we keep the abundance of the universe circulating in our lives.

The technical genius which could find answers was not cooped up in military or civilian bureaucracy, but was to be found in universities and in the people at large.

We should always bear in mind that numbers represent a simplification of reality.

But I intend to enjoy the weeks I have left with you to the fullest. Because I know from my study of the philosophy of time, whatever is going to happen in the future is already unavoidable.

I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money.