Like the teens I worked with, I understood the need for miracles--they kept reality from paralyzing you

words are like nets - we hope they'll cover what we mean, but we know they can't possibly hold that much joy, or grief, or wonder.

And I remembered something else that makes us human: faith, the only weapon in our arsenal to battle doubt.

It seems to me that no matter what religion you subscribe to, acts of kindness are the stepping-stones to making the world a better place--because we become better people in it.

When you're different, sometimes you don't see the millions of people who accept you for what you are. All you notice is the person who doesn't.

You live and let live, eventually that becomes enough.

Would you give up your vengeance against someone you hate if it meant saving someone you love? Would you want your dreams to come true if it meant granting your enemy's dying wish?

You didn't get past something like that, you go through it -- and for that reason alone, I understood more about her than she ever would have guessed.

I knew what it was like to lose someone you loved. You didn't get past something like that, you got through it.

You’ll tell yourself anything you have to, to pretend that you’re still the one in control.

Formal education teaches how to stand, but to see the rainbow you must come out and walk many steps on your own.

The strongest words can be said in the softest voices and still be resonant.

Nothing is unfixable

If you're asking your kids to exercise, then you better do it, too. Practice what you preach.

I can die anytime I want. I wish I could do the same with life.

Broken Horses is an artistic triumph. Beautifully written, acted and imaged, this film wraps slowly around you like a king snake and squeezes.

If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.

If all of mathematics disappeared, physics would be set back by exactly one week.

Fairly large print is a real antidote to stiff reading.

Methinks sometimes I have no more wit than a Christian or an ordinary man has; but I am a great eater of beef, and I believe that does harm to my wit.