Now here's a good one: you're lying on your deathbed. You have one hour to live. Who is it, exactly, you have needed all these years to forgive?

The night is a strawberry.

Myrna could spend happy hours browsing bookcases. She felt if she could just get a good look at a person’s bookcase and their grocery cart, she’d pretty much know who they were.

The four sayings that lead to wisdom: I was wrong I'm sorry I don't know I need help

Life is change. If you aren't growing and evolving, you're standing still, and the rest of the world is surging ahead.

Fear lives in the head. And courage lives in the heart. The job is to get from one to the other.

No good ever comes from putting up walls. What people mistake for safety is in fact captivity. And few things thrive in captivity.

But you want murderous feelings? Hang around librarians," confided Gamache. "All that silence. Gives them ideas.

Better to accept the wretched truth than struggle, twisting to make a wish a reality.

When someone stabs you it's not your fault that you feel pain.

Where there is love there is courage, where there is courage there is peace, where there is peace there is God. And when you have God, you have everything.

Just because you consider yourself a genius does not mean you are smart

Much Madness is Divinest Sense, to a Discerning Eye....

To win the heart of men, always be yourself.

Gratitude is born in hearts that take time to count up past mercies. they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.

I myself love getting cookbooks and novels that some congenial person has already tried and liked.

I haven't much opinion of words. They're apt to set fire to a dry tongue, that's what I say.

Bless... the two painting masters who first pointed out to me that there was coming and going among trees, that there was sunlight in shadows.

The first act of awe, when man was struck with the beauty or wonder of Nature, was the first spiritual experience.

Why are you so sad, akri? (Simi) I’m not sad, Simi. (Acheron) Yes you are. I know you, akri, you gots that pain in your heart like the Simi gets whenever she cries. (Simi)

In life, never spend more than 10 percent of your time on the problem, and spend at least 90 percent of your time on the solution.