Nothing is fair in this world. You might as well get that straight right now

If you need something from somebody always give that person a way to hand it to you.

Stories have to be told or they die, and when they die, we can't remember who we are or why we're here.

I'm tired of carrying around the weight of the world. I'm just going to lay it down now. It's my time to die, and it's your time to live. Don't mess it up.

Every living creature on the earth is special. You want to be the one that puts an end to one of them?

We are so limited, you have to use the same word for loving Rosaleen as you do for loving Coke with peanuts. Isn't that a shame we don't have many more ways to say it?

There is nothing perfect...only life.

I realized it for the first time in my life: there is nothing but mystery in the world, how it hides behind the fabric of our poor, browbeat days, shining brightly, and we don't even know it.

And when you get down to it, Lily, that is the only purpose grand enough for a human life. Not just to love but to persist in love.

Actually, you can be bad at something...but if you love doing it, that will be enough. - August Boatwright

He'd gone to church for forty years and was only getting worse. It seemed like this should tell God something.

make your worst day is the best day in your life, because surely there's something missing within our self without it, so we can be who we are now, the wiser and the mature one

Aliyah is the central goal of the State of Israel.

I don't spend as much time on my hair as people think. I get out of the shower, whack some grease on there and I'm done.

You are the Creator of your reality... you were granted this ability. You have free will... you are an unlimited aspect, a portion of God... of the Creator... of All That Is.

Every doctor will allow a colleague to decimate a whole countryside sooner than violate the bond of professional etiquette by giving him away.

Dance of the Sugar Plum Bikey. Yes, that's got a nice ring to it.

We are not required to go through [Jesus'] trials, but we are required to be willing to go through them. To prove that we are willing to do so, we must go through our own trials and remain faithful.

I think I learned to appreciate and treasure each day, because you don't know how many you're going to be given.

I've recently started composting in my apartment, which is quite an adventure.

We are thinking beings, and we cannot exclude the intellect from participating in any of our functions.