She put out her hand and touched his forearm, as she would have touched some piece of porcelain or sculpture, just for the sheer animal pleasure of feeling its shape and curve beneath her fingertips.

It is better to travel hopefully than to arrive. Arrival often brings nothing but a sense of desolation and disappointment.

Life is so extraordinary. Wonderful surprises are just around the most unexpected corners.

Writing is work, but it's also a compulsion, and once you get your characters on paper, you can't abandon them. You have to respond to them.

It was good, and nothing good is truly lost. It stays part of a person, becomes part of their character. So part of you goes everywhere with me. And part of me is yours, forever

Happiness is making the most of what you have, and riches is making the most of what you've got.

The greatest gift a parent can leave a child is that parent's own independence.

And the wicked thing is, that when we're really upset, we always take it out on the people who are closest and whom we love the most.

Things happen they way they're meant to. There's a pattern and a shape to everything...Nothing happens without a reason...Nothing is impossible...(Page 180).

There's a war on. We don't know how anything's going to end. We just have to grasp each fleeting moment of joy as it whizzes by.

I wasn't good enough. I had a little talent but not enough. There is nothing more discouraging than having just a little talent.

Many people die of thirst but the Irish are born with one.

When you're doing sketch comedy and you're pregnant, it's like wearing a giant sombrero in every sketch.

The first step of letting go: To remove what obstructs your experience of wholeness and peace, you must first look at the obstruction.

Technology should do the hard work so people can do the things that make them the happiest in life.

The Bible is no mere book, but a Living Creature, with a power that conquers all that oppose it.

It is quite normal to be racist, but it is criminal to remain one.

We Germans will never produce another Goethe, but we may produce another Caesar.

One of the benefits of a bad education is the constant pleasure of discovery.

But sometimes you lose. Nothing you can do but admit it. -Eli

I have exes Im friends with and exes Im not friends with. It depends on what you decide together. I do think that sometimes trying to maintain that bond can be healthier than walking away.