It seemed that the good people were always cleaning up the messes.

The dead are never far from us. They're in our hearts and on our minds and in the end all that separates us from them is a single breath, one final puff of air.

I was a sinner. I knew that without a doubt. But I was not alone. And the night was the accomplice of us all.

Fishing, Danny boy, is purely a state of mind. Some men, when they are fishing, are after fish. Me, I'm after things you could never set a barbed hook in.

What life gives us, good or bad, we seldom deserve.

The miracle is this: that you will rise in the morning and be able to see again the startling beauty of the day.

I used to ask for an easy life, now I ask to be strong.

And what is happiness, Nathan? In my experience, it's only a moment's pause here and there on what is otherwise a long and difficult road. No one can be happy all the time.

You stopped looking for the truth...I'd guess that's a sin we've all been guilty of.

It was best to believe in all possibilities...there were more mysteries in the world than a man could ever hope to understand.

We know dates and times and locations and participants but accounts of what happened depend upon the perspective from which the event is viewed.

Control of consciousness determines the quality of life.

The snug log house looked just as it always had. It did not seem to know they were going away.

I tried to blink back the tears that just kept coming. Eventually, I gave up and let my sight be obscured.

Your breaking point is often your blessing point.

I have tried 99 times and have failed, but on the 100th time came success.

I just play basketball. I'm athletic. Skinny but strong, tall but quick.

By the time I was 7, I did walk-ons, catalogue modeling, you name it. In the Queens where I grew up, you didn't go bowling on Saturday; you went to dancing school.

I love hip-hop music, ... It's rebel music is how I like to speak about it. Hip-hop and reggae come from the same community as far as class...they both come from the bottom of society.

The problems are solved, not by giving new information, but by arranging what we have always known.

As a society, I think older women are marginalized, but I think that has changed so much in the last twenty years.