The bad news is, our past defines us. However, the good news is, our future will someday be a part of that past.

Authors are the closest thing man would come to understanding God. It is a remarkable thing to conjure up a life and create its story.

Love doesn't hurt, love doesn't cut, and in dark times love doesn't cease.Love heals, love seals, it drains out the world and leaves you with peace.

Good deeds may not lead to heaven...still do deeds that make you feel like you are in there already.

The man who has never been disappointed has never understood happiness, the man who has never been anxious has never learned patience, the man who has never been depressed will never know ecstasy.

What we gain in the world, we lose in the world, forgotten in death. We must rather fancy what we brought into the world, for therein lives our story, our legend.

If wishes were grains of sand, the world would be a desert.

If you are the one perfect person in an imperfect world, you are flawed.

Though death might still the show, life would be the most critiqued act of our existence. Own your stage.

With you life is wonderful, with out you its unbearable

Freedom - rather more complicated in the concrete than the abstract, yes?

No course was open to me save to leap, with eyes self-bound, into the yawning abyss of the future.

A writer is someone who has taught his mind to misbehave.

No quality imparts apparent strength to its possessors more effectively than faith. From hospital beds to battlefields, it is the iron that strengthens a man to confront his destiny.

Attachment has to do with suffering, so it's really close to Buddhism, because Buddhism wants to relieve you from suffering; you're supposed to escape from suffering.

Bigots see something they expect and then they stop thinking about what is in front of them. It's probably how they got to be bigots in the first place.

That's your solution? Have a cookie?' Astrid asked. 'No, my solution is to run down to the beach and hide out until this is all over,' Sam said. 'But a cookie never hurts.

One is always half mad when one is shy of people.

I’m not afraid of dying. Pieces of me die all the time.