Oh," says Owen, "but I would have, you know." "I know you would have," says Liz, "and knowing you would have is nearly as good.

You know everything you need to know about a person from the answer to the question, What is your favorite book?

I can promise you books and conversation and all my heart.

It was strange, really. A couple months ago, I had thought I couldn’t live without him. Apparently I could.

Diving is a leap of faith plus gravity.

We are not quite novels. We are not quite short stories. In the end, we are collected works

We aren't the things we collect, acquire, read. We are, for as long as we are here, only love. The things we loved. The people we loved. And these, I think these really do live on.

Let's stay young forever. Young, stupid, and pretty. Sounds like a plan, don't you think?

Death is a state of mind---many people on Earth spend their entire lives dead.

They should tell you when you’re born: have a suitcase heart, be ready to travel.

In the end, the end of a life only matters to friends, family, and other folks you used to know. For everyone else, it's just another end.

Joy is not the absence of darkness. Joy is confidence that the darkness will lift.

Unless today is well lived, tomorrow is not important.

I don't need an award to inspire me to keep making music.

So, they had this 40-odd year friendship with each other and with Mr Harwood. So, when I came on it Albert, Tom and Maggie were in the cast. But then Albert wasn't up for it, so he had to withdraw.

Gracefulness is to the body what understanding is to the mind.

When I look in the mirror,I just want to like myself...And if I like myself,then I look good.

I love doubt in a woman. It's nearly as sexy as determination.

I'm in the moment. I'm always in the moment of life.

Singing really oxygenates your blood. You stretch your lungs and take in much more air into them than before. It's really good for your health.

American English is the greatest influence of English everywhere.