What we aspire to be is more than what we are yet less than what we are capable of.

The road of life twists and turns and no two directions are ever the same. Yet our lessons come from the journey, not the destination.

Music is the balm that heals the forlorn ache of a distant star.

Lessons that come easy are not lessons at all. They are gracious acts of luck. Yet lessons learned the hard way are lessons never forgotten.

You're my bread when I'm hungry You're my shelter from troubled winds You're my anchor in life's ocean Most of all You're my best friend

I don't believe that heaven waits for only those who congregate.

When the sparrow sings its final refrain, the hush is felt nowhere more deeply than in the heart of man.

I don't believe virginity is common as it used to be.

Why is it that an extended olive branch often turns to a clinched fist of hatred?

On an altar of prejudice we crucify our own, yet the blood of all children is the color of God.

World unity is the wish of the hopeful, the goal of the idealist and the dream of the romantic. Yet it is folly to the realist and a lie to the innocent.

Mëso të mos e shkatërrosh me fjalë atë çfarë ke ndërtuar me heshtje.

One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious. The latter procedure, however, is disagreeable and therefore not popular.

Bad human communication leaves us less room to grow.

I just want to be a wallflower. Nondescript. Just not anything. I don't want to see me.

[On Thomas Seymour's death:] This day died a man of much wit and very little judgment.

The hardest part is believing in yourself at the notebook stage. It is like believing in dreams in the morning.

Set a new standard. Change reality. Break ground to something new and different. That achievement will live forever just because you WERE somebody special!

No sensible person ever opens the door of his house without knowing who is knocking.

As children everyone thinks their family is weird and they're upset by the weirdness of their own family.