The uniqueness of every soul is not a theme that our current culture, obsessed with group identities, cares to assert.

Do not doubt the beauty of your heart.

Knowing the names of things is a way to pay respect to the beauty of the world...

...the more we learn, the more we realize how much we don't know.

We make so many of our own troubles, from mere mishaps to disasters, by dwelling on the possibility of them until the possible becomes inevitable.

All death matters.""Only to the living.

The dead can be even more frustrating to deal with than are many of the living, which is astonishing when you consider it's the living who run the Department of Motor Vehicles.

I never plan for the future but wander into it with a smile on my face, hope in my heart, and the hair up on the nape of my neck.

If there's nothing to learn because we know it all, what's the challenge? Why would the effort matter? What would be the point? - Odd Thomas

Virtue is imaginative, evil repetitive.

In memory, she lived and moved and laughed, but all that a photograph could offer was one frozen moment of a life.

if you can, gift a relationship to someone rather destroy a relationship to someone .

Today it is time for every child to have a right to life, right to freedom, right to health, right to education, safety, the right to dignity, right to equality, and right to peace.

I came to America with a dream and I made it. The dream became reality. America is built for success.

I always loved Little Anthony and the Imperials. They were like the precursors of the Temptations. I loved their music.

Prayer is the language of a man burdened with a sense of need.

I try to use my music to move these people to act.

I'm not someone who feels the pressure of someone else's expectations. That's a very young way to feel.

If there is someone in your life who is not serving you or making you better, give yourself permission to move on.

Free markets are a tool, free speech is a goal.

Faith is trust or commitment to what you think is true.