There's no benchmark for how life's "supposed" to happen. There is no ideal world for you to wait around for. The world is always just what it is now, it's up to you how you respond to it.

I want to change my punctuation. I long for exclamation marks, but I'm drowning in ellipses.

I would like my life to be a movie so I could cut to a montage.

My friend "M" says the irony of being a zombie is that everything is funny, but you can't smile, because your lips have rotted off.

...wanting change is step one, but step two is taking it.

You should always be taking pictures, if not with a camera then with your mind. Memories you capture on purpose are always more vivid than the ones you pick up by accident.

Deep under our feet the Earth holds its molten breath, while the bones of countless generations watch us and wait.

...and we'll see what happens when we say Yes while this rigor mortis world screams No.

Is this muteness a real physical handicap? One of the many symptoms of being Dead?Or do we just have nothing left to say?

That's why we have memory. And the opposite of memory— hope. So things that are gone can still matter. So we can built off our pasts and make future.

There is no ideal world for you to wait around for. The world is always just what it is now, and it's up to you how you respond to it.

There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power or our will.

The value of marriage is not that adults produce children, but that children produce adults.

There was a day when writers actually read, " he grumbles. "They could quote Keats and Socrates. Now anyone with a keyboard and a fifth-grade education can call themselves a writer.

The real badge of honour at work is not to work longer than anyone else, but to work smarter than anyone else.

If you want to thrive, you need to sow the seeds of self-development.

Forgiveness is the highest and most difficult of all moral lessons.

In God have I put my trust: I will not be afraid what man can do unto me.

If you are strangers to prayer you are strangers to power.

The American people...have a stake in non-conformity. For they know that the American genius is non-conformist.

Life is endless, not punctuated by nights, days, months and years - for all are one, in the eternal stream.