Ordinary imperfect people, always choose similarly imperfect people as friends.

Everybody has to start somewhere. You have your whole future ahead of you. Perfection doesn't happen right away.

Dreams come from the past, not from the future. Dreams shouldn't control you--you should control them.

Thinking about spaghetti that boils eternally but is never done is a sad, sad thing.

Death is not the opposite of life, but a part of it.

With each passing moment I'm becoming part of the past. There is no future for me, just the past steadily accumulating.

You can see a person's whole life in the cancer they get.

I said nothing for a time, just ran my fingertips along the edge of the human-shaped emptiness that had been left inside me.

Sometimes we don't need words. Rather, it's words that need us.

He sometimes wondered if she had become involved with him just so that she could cry in someone's arms. Maybe she can't cry alone, and that's why she needs me.

My father always told me: 'Give somebody a hand and he'll take an arm.

There are big advantages of living for God, therefore try to spend every minute you have walking with Him, listening to Him and learning of His wisdom

They have to know, for we know, that reincarnation is real.

Courage is the right disposition toward fear.

One thing I learned particularly at Yale was how to work with others. Having studied so long trying to master myself, the biggest challenge was learning about the other person's work.

Jesus loves me! This I know As He loved so long ago Taking children on His knee Saying, Let them come to Me.

It is not my fault that certain so-called bohemian elements have found in my writings something to hang their peculiar beatnik theories on.

The equality of rights of all citizens is the basic tenet of modern democratic societies.

There is no love apart from the deeds of love; no potentiality of love other than that which is manifested in loving.

Men meet; mountains, never.

Chemotherapy takes its toll; the more you keep doing it, you lose your energy, and it gets more difficult to swallow.