She spilled rice on my knee, and she smiled. I wanted her to spill a thousand things on me, lava, acid, bricks, anything, and smile each time

The path of your life can change in an instant.

A loving soul was always more beautiful over the long haul, but actual prettiness was fleeting.

People sometimes talk about the power of first impressions, and believe me, there is truth to it.

I did the searching and remembering, she did the disappearing and the forgetting.

Love who you love while you have them. That's all you can do. Let them go when you must. If you know how to love, you'll never run out.

Love demands everything, they say, but my love demands only this: that no matter what happens or how long it takes, you'll keep faith in me, you'll remember who we are, and you'll never feel despair.

You have been with me from the very first life. You are my first memory every time, the single thread in all of my lives. It's you who makes me a person.

But it was smell that carried memory.

How could you cleanse yourself if you couldn’t forget?

Even exciting places are boring most of the time. Wars. Movie sets. Emergency rooms.

Collect books, even if you don’t plan on reading them right away. Filmmaker John Waters has said, “Nothing is more important than an unread library.

Technology is anything invented after you were born.

There are people who prefer to look their fate in the eye

Losers take chances; winners make choices.

My next door neighbor's two dogs have created more shovel-ready jobs than this current administration.

Often people see doctrines as a checklist. Here are the following nineteen truths which you've got to believe to be a good sound Christian.

We had 10 children in our family. We all helped each other - we had to to exist, especially when we were out on the farm.

EVERYTHING is dependent on whether or not we care... CHOOSE to care, CHOOSE to want, CHOOSE to do the right thing.

You can know what's in your life when you know what's in your heart.

A kid of your age---any kid---could get hold of matches if she wanted to, burn up the house or whatever. But not many do. Why would they want to?