When death tells a story yo really have to listen

A snowball in the face is surely the perfect beginning to a lasting friendship.

… it was raining on Himmel Street when the world ended for Liesel Meminger. The sky was dripping. Like a tap that a child has tried its hardest to turn off but hasn’t quite managed.

Imagine smiling after a slap in the face. Then think of doing it twenty-four hours a day.

Like most misery, it started with apparent happiness.

Sometimes people are beautiful. Not in looks. Not in what they say. Just in what they are.

I have to say that although it broke my heart, I was, and still am, glad I was there.

Please, trust me, I most definitely can be cheerful. I can be amiable. Agreeable. Affable. And that's only the A's. Just don't ask me to be nice. Nice has nothing to do with me.

I guess that’s the beauty of books. When they finish they don’t really finish.

Sometimes I just survive. But sometimes I stand on the rooftop of my existence, arms stretched out, begging for more.

If only she could be so oblivious again, to feel such love without knowing it, mistaking it for laughter.

The strewn and tangled wreckage that litters our lives is the precious raw material from which great beginnings are forged.

To be inspired is great, but to inspire is an honor.

A man who doen't wear a black suite, is not a real man".

Aside from producing I want to direct but I'm also going to get back out on the road.

Give me oysters and beer, for dinner every day of the year, and I'll be fine.

I experience God as the power of life, the power of love and the ground of being. I don't say that's what God is; I say that's my experience of God.

This watchfulness, this witnessing is the ultimate secret of creating a religious life, of creating a life of transcendence, a life of spirituality, of enlightenment, of buddhahood.

This is my theater. This is where I can sing and act out a play and do sit-ups at the same time

It’s the things you fight for and struggle with before earning that have the greatest worth.

Now let's repeat the non-conformists' oath: I promise to be different! I promise to be unique! I promise not to repeat things other people say! Good!