The trouble with emergencies is," she said, "that I always put on my finest underwear and then nothing happens.

Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.

She quietly expected great things to happen to her, and no doubt that’s one of the reasons why they did.

Look closer and you'll see something extraordinary, mystifying, something real and true. We have never been what we seemed.

She refused to be bored chiefly because she wasn't boring.

I don't want to live. I want to love first, and live incidentally.

I love you, even if there isn’t any me, or any love, or even any life. I love you.

isn't it funny how danger makes people passionate?

By the time a person has achieved years adequate for choosing a direction, the die is cast and the moment has long since passed which determined the future.

Experience teaches you how to do things you never want to do again.

I wish I could write a beautiful book to break those hearts that are soon to cease to exist: a book of faith and small neat worlds and of people who live by the philosophies of popular songs.

There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.

Can anyone survive without faith, however its labeled? No matter how you live, it seems, you need faith to get by, to get ahead.

Why take pride in cooking, when they don't take pride in eating?

No one is exempt from grief.

You make different colors by combining those colors that already exist.

While their service is ending, our responsibility is just beginning!

Life becomes inspiring, not in spite of the problems and the hard hits, but because of them.

Sometimes you're overwhelmed when a thing comes, and you do not realize the magnitude of the affair at that moment. When you get away from it, you wonder, did it really happen to you.

People who believe they cause good things tend to like themselves better than people who believe good things come from other people or circumstances.

Educate yourself. Don't let me educate you