Man has left footprints on the moon but still hasn't walked on the ocean floor.

Sunsets, like childhood, are viewed with wonder not just because they are beautiful but because they are fleeting.

I have Tourettes syndrome.

The most difficult of decisions are often not the ones in which we cannot determine the correct course; rather the ones in which we are certain of the path but fear the journey.

Forgiveness does not require us to close our eyes but rather to truly open them.

So often the pain of our life is no more than a reminder to take our hand off the stove.

There are none so impoverished as those who do not acknowledge the abundance of their lives

such fickle days of love when pain and ecstasy share the same hour

The greatest shackles we bear in thislife are those forged by our own fears

Forgiveness is the key to the heart's shackles.

To choose the path is to choose the destination, but sometimes it seems that the path is under our feet even before we know we're walking.

Set out to be the person you know you can be. Thinking about it, and talking about it is the first step. If you can imagine it for yourself then you can do it. Take action!

We are all 99.9 percent genetically equal. It is one one-hundredth of one percent of genetic material that makes the difference between any one of us.

Go vote now, it will make you feel big and strong.

Hope sings when all melodies are gone.

A perfect faith is nowhere to be found, so it follows that all of us are partly unbelievers.

I said nothing—I hadn’t known Marya, and anyway, “listening quietly” was my general social strategy

'Oscar Wao' for example cohered in a period of terrible distress. All the novels that I wanted to write were not happening.

You can't touch music, but music can touch you

No man is ever whipped until he quits - in his own mind.

Death is when the monsters get you.