Love is patient and trusting; it doesn't hold a grudge when somebody hurts you, and most of all, it endures.

Nobody gets to pick their time to die, but living every day to the max is something we all get to do.

Pain and suffering are the soil of strength and courage.

None of us truly knows what we'll do when the circumstances become so overwhelming and complex that we can't even tell right from wrong.

For as long as the world spins and the earth is green with new wood, she will lie in this box and not in my arms.

You don't know me, but I know about you...I can't make you live longer. I can't stop you from hurting. But I can give you one wish, as someone did for me.

Who wants to be used? I love to read, so books are my main friends. They're always available, always friendly, and always interesting, and they never make me choose sides.

If I can't wait for you at the end of an aisle on your wedding day, I'll wait for you in heaven.

I wanted to write about the third world and had the opportunity to go live in the trenches, so to speak.

I am very privileged and honored when someone chooses to read a book, especially a book of mine.

But they can't know how the dark space inside me is growing. I lie to them. I can't get out of the dark hole. 'Peace is here' it whispers.

The greatest fear dogs know is the fear that you will not come back when you go out the door without them.

There are still very few laws against thinking, although I am sure they're working hard on that in Washington.

The devil is busytrying to take from uswhat we get from God, and so God bids us hold fast.

Where affluence is the rule, the true threat is the loss of desire, (...) What is new is not that prosperity depends on stimulating demand. It is that it cannot continue without inventing new vices

The record industry is still pissed off that other people are making money off their business, even if it promotes their products and increases their sales. I think they're still mad about radio.

You're only as good as your last pass.

I'm quite dyslexic in school.

My motto is "Unite now, today if you can; fight if you must. But in every case avoid British intervention."

Triangulation is not a strategy that will move America forward.

If higher unemployment is the price we have to pay in order to bring inflation down, then it is a price worth paying.