It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life.

For what it's worth, it's never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you're proud of and if you find that you're not, I hope you have the strength to start over.

You are the finest, loveliest, tenderest, and most beautiful person I have ever known—and even that is an understatement.

And in the end, we were all just humans...Drunk on the idea that love, only love, could heal our brokenness.

Suddenly she realized that what she was regretting was not the lost past but the lost future, not what had not been but what would never be.

To be kind is more important than to be right. Many times, what people need is not a brilliant mind that speaks but a special heart that listens.

The world only exists in your eyes. You can make it as big or as small as you want

Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.

There are all kinds of love in this world but never the same love twice.

You have a place in my heart no one else ever could have.

The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.

Sometimes thought Liir-his first thought in weeks and weeks-sometimes I hate this marvelous land of ours. It's so much like home, and then it holds out on you.

Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play.

Nobody expects you to understand the mind of God or know why he would love us in the midst of our weaknesss and sin.

I swing both ways. I can see things from a kind of conservative point of view and from a more socially liberal or left-wing point of view.

Right now, I feel like I can take on the world. Ambition is the perfect word for where I am in my life right now.

I'm his locomotive and he's my shield.

It is better to break one's heart than to do nothing with it.

Fame and fortune should never get in front of your passion. The passion will generate the fame and fortune, if you're good enough.

What are you afraid of? You are an immortal being. You are neither a man nor a woman, as you may think, but a soul - joyous, eternal.

The difference between me and you is that I do good fiction.