Strange children should smile at each other and say, "Let's play.

For what it's worth, it's never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you're proud of and if you find that you're not, I hope you have the strength to start over.

You are the finest, loveliest, tenderest, and most beautiful person I have ever known—and even that is an understatement.

And in the end, we were all just humans...Drunk on the idea that love, only love, could heal our brokenness.

Suddenly she realized that what she was regretting was not the lost past but the lost future, not what had not been but what would never be.

To be kind is more important than to be right. Many times, what people need is not a brilliant mind that speaks but a special heart that listens.

The world only exists in your eyes. You can make it as big or as small as you want

Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.

There are all kinds of love in this world but never the same love twice.

You have a place in my heart no one else ever could have.

The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.

Happiness is part of who we are. Joy is the feeling

To enter your true self, check your ego at the door.

The Bill of Rights wasn’t enacted to give us any rights. It was enacted so the Government could not take away from us any rights that we already had.

You can certainly destroy enough of humanity so that only the greatest act of faith can persuade you that what's left will be human.

I really enjoy doing both, but I didn't write nonfiction until 1994.

Genuine wisdom is usually conspicuous through modesty and silence.

Looking at the creative process is like looking into a crystal: no matter which facet we gaze into, we see all the others reflected.

If there is a God, you owe him far more than a morally decent life.

Don't chase the money... chase the passion. Because that's what is going to keep you happy and motivated and jumping out of that bed Monday morning.

Friendship isn't a big thing - it's a million little things.