We're all more than the person we show to everyone else.

Time goes by slowly when you spend it waiting.

But what I realize, here, now, is that it's not actually making the choice that takes courage. It's facing it afterward. Owning up to it, whether it's good or bad.

You know... sometimes we meet our destiny on the road we take to avoid it.

I read once that water is a symbol for emotions. And for a while now I've thought maybe my mother drowned in both.

But when’s the last time you took a chance? Or didn’t do what someone else expected of you? Or did something you really wanted to, even though you probably shouldn’t have?

That’s what seems the most sad to me—that neither of them even think there’s a possibility they can be together.

That's the best part. The how.

We're all more than the person we show to everyone else. At least I hope so. Because I feel like there's more to me than that. I just haven't had the chance yet to show it.

Sometimes a shock to the system is a good thing, you know? Like a reminder that you're alive.

[I]t wasn't history that was too fragile, but me.

They say, love God, for it is the greatest virtue. I say, love humans, for there is no greater virtue, no greater religion, than the love of humanity.

Around them, sky and air wove the ancient song of the meeting place of earth and sea—wave-rush on the shore, gulls mewing and sobbing. No more bells, except a last dying peal from Fara.

You may think I’m small, but I have a universe inside my mind.

I reckon responsible behavior is something to get when you grow older. Like varicose veins.

A word to the wise is sufficient.

Anxiety in human life is what squeaking and grinding are in machinery that is not oiled. In life, trust is the oil.

Approach the universe with Tao, And evil will have no power. Not that evil is not powerful, But its power will not be used to harm others.

Spanking and verbal criticism have become, to many parents, more important tools of child rearing than approval.

The first step, my son, which one makes in the world, is the one on which depends the rest of our days.

Look at the bright side no matter how old you are, you are younger than you'll ever be again.