So much of young adult literature has turned dark, almost pathological. It's almost as if there is a race to see who can be the most dysfunctional.

Sunsets, like childhood, are viewed with wonder not just because they are beautiful but because they are fleeting.

I have Tourettes syndrome.

The most difficult of decisions are often not the ones in which we cannot determine the correct course; rather the ones in which we are certain of the path but fear the journey.

Forgiveness does not require us to close our eyes but rather to truly open them.

So often the pain of our life is no more than a reminder to take our hand off the stove.

There are none so impoverished as those who do not acknowledge the abundance of their lives

such fickle days of love when pain and ecstasy share the same hour

The greatest shackles we bear in thislife are those forged by our own fears

Forgiveness is the key to the heart's shackles.

To choose the path is to choose the destination, but sometimes it seems that the path is under our feet even before we know we're walking.

I miss him in so many ways, but right now I miss him in the way you always miss someone when you're single among a room full of couples.

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.

Nights without work I spent with whisky and books.

Life is my college. May I graduate well and earn some honors!

The two most important forms of intelligence are the ability to read other people and the ability to understand oneself.

It's always an honor and a scary experience to sing new music.

Make me, oh God, the prey of the Lion, ere you make the rabbit my prey

The chiefest sanctity of a temple is that it is a place to which men go to weep in common.

In the middle of a recession no tax increase is justified because it kills jobs, and any tax increase is a job-killing measure and should be defeated.

Encouraging underground uranium mining on the Colorado Plateau um, the federal government was the only purchaser of uranium ore to try to manufacture uh, atomic bombs.