Things happen they way they're meant to. There's a pattern and a shape to everything...Nothing happens without a reason...Nothing is impossible...(Page 180).

It is better to travel hopefully than to arrive. Arrival often brings nothing but a sense of desolation and disappointment.

Life is so extraordinary. Wonderful surprises are just around the most unexpected corners.

Writing is work, but it's also a compulsion, and once you get your characters on paper, you can't abandon them. You have to respond to them.

It was good, and nothing good is truly lost. It stays part of a person, becomes part of their character. So part of you goes everywhere with me. And part of me is yours, forever

Happiness is making the most of what you have, and riches is making the most of what you've got.

She put out her hand and touched his forearm, as she would have touched some piece of porcelain or sculpture, just for the sheer animal pleasure of feeling its shape and curve beneath her fingertips.

The greatest gift a parent can leave a child is that parent's own independence.

And the wicked thing is, that when we're really upset, we always take it out on the people who are closest and whom we love the most.

There's a war on. We don't know how anything's going to end. We just have to grasp each fleeting moment of joy as it whizzes by.

I wasn't good enough. I had a little talent but not enough. There is nothing more discouraging than having just a little talent.

Don't value people to the extent they begin to feel they are indispensable.

His father was self-made, but his mother was constructed by others, and such edifices are notoriously fragile.

We're just getting started. We're just beginning to meet what will be the future-we've got the Model T.

The best of life is to embark on an adventure with a woman interested in having an adventure with you.

My heart aches completely, every hour, every day, and only when I'm with you does the pain go away.

The people who most affected me were the ones who got right in there with me, who cried with me, but who also had a certain authority, who dared to say what needed saying.

I will heighten my life by helping others heighten theirs

I don't really believe in good and evil. I never had. I think it's enabled me to open my mind.

You cannot truly say you live well unless you eat well.

There is only one sin - lack of love. Be brave, be capable of loving, even if love seems a terrible and treacherous thing. Find joy in love. Find joy in victory. Follow the dictates of your heart.