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.

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.

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.

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.

Don’t Freeze! Surrender to the Breeze like the Trees!

We can't deliver folks from their pits, but we can sure get in there with them until God does.

I travel to know where I fit into the world, and where I don’t.

Confidence ... is directness and courage in meeting the facts of life.

Between friends there is no need of justice.

Some of the best lessons we ever learn are learned from past mistakes. The error of the past is the wisdom and success of the future.

There is nothing worse than being ashamed of parsimony or poverty.

People are unhappy when they are on diets, because it's 'don't do this, don't do that, do this, do that.

If I were to say what I really think I would be arrested or shut away in a lunatic asylum. Come on, I am sure that it would be the same for everyone.

If you wish to see the thousand years, look at today; if you wish to understand the millionfold, then look at the one or the two.