There's no such thing as a lost cause.

There's a reason for everything, you said, and though it's a mystery to me now, I know it won't always be so.

...like the 75 billion souls who lived before him, each and every one a treasure, he, too, will die.

On the horizon, he saw the full moon. God dropped it there, he was sure, as a reminder of our small place in the world. A reminder that what is beautiful is fleeting.

And I was even beginning to think home might be with you.

In a critical sense, doing nothing can mean doing something. Inaction can be action and embracing this paradox can save your life.

We chase wild dreams and long for all that eludes us, when the greatest joys are within our grasp, if we can only recognize them.

...the enduring human need to be remembered.

There's death and life, you see. We all shine on. A leaf, a star, a song, a laugh. Notice the little things, because somebody is reaching out to you. ...Somebody loves you.

Just because you have baggage doesn't mean you have to lug it around.

...I feel pity that she will never fully understand what it is to be loved and forgiven, then loved even more.” Pastel Orphans

I have no history but the length of my bones.

And pleas'd th' Almighty's orders to perform. Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm.

Everything that goes on in your whole life is a result of molecules rushing around somewhere in your brain.

I started in 1957 when I sold my first story to a magazine.

I live by the 80/20 rule: I'm 80 percent healthy, and then 20 percent indulgent.

Drumming is my middle name.

I never expected to win a Grand Slam because, for me, I was not good enough to beat those guys.

There is no position in sport as noble as goaltending.