You can't change where you came from, but you can change where you go from here.

But relying on one person for your every need is so dangerous. One set of hands isn't enough to keep you from falling

Jack thought anyone who read couldn't be all that bad.

The books I read when I was twenty completely changed when I read them when I was sixty.

You can't change where you come from, but you can change where you go from here. Just like a book. If you don't like the ending, you can make up a new one.

It was a remarkable realization to Eby, that we are what we're taught. That was why the Morris women were what they were. It was because they knew no different.

You can't change where you came from, but you can change where you go from here. Just like a book. If you don't like the ending, you make up a new one.

Warm, enticing scents were floating down, basil and oregano and tomato. It made Wes long for something, something he couldn't place. A happy childhood, a home.

She knew him in that way you can only know a person as a child. Like if you cracked away the adult shell, you'd find that child, happily sitting inside, smiling at you.

Those stories were the sound track of my summer with you.

There was a sense of tightness in the room now, filling the space. Attraction was like that. It filled. It poured into you like batter into a pan, sticking to the sides.

I trade all my pains for peace of God.

I have a vanilla chai latte every morning, which I usually follow with an oatmeal raisin cookie and eggs for breakfast.

The gospel is a gospel of giving and forgiving.

The government understands - every government, every administration, both parties, understands - that that power, they just don't have.

Artists, like the Greek gods, are only revealed to one another.

The art of life is to stay wide open and be vulnerable, yet at the same time to sit with the mystery and the awe and with the unbearable pain - to just be with it all.

We have a finite amount of time. Whether short or long, it doesn't matter. Life is to be lived.

I've been on antidepressants for years, and it worked to stop my anxiety and didn't limit creativity. Some of the best work I've done, in fact, is after I started taking the antidepressants.

I don't think there's a city that has done more and sustained a higher level of security and protection than New York City.

If a man can make typewriters better than anyone else, let us, in the name of common sense, keep him on the job of making typewriters.