"You marked the minutes," the old man said. "But did you use them wisely? To be still? To cherish? To be grateful? To lift and be lifted?"

Love is how you stay alive, even after you are gone.

When someone is in your heart, they're never truly gone. They can come back to you, even at unlikely times.

Accept who you are; and revel in it.

Death ends a life, not a relationship.

This is part of what a family is about, not just love. It's knowing that your family will be there watching out for you. Nothing else will give you that. Not money. Not fame. Not work.

We all yearn for what we have lost. But sometimes, we forget what we have.

The truth is, once you learn how to die, you learn how to live.

Do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself.

Nothing haunts us like the things we don't say.

Don't cling to things because everything is impermanent.

When the vision is clear, the results will appear. Keep your mindset positive as you work your plan, flourish, and always remember why you started.

You must know what to do with your time if you must fulfill your purpose on the earth.

Dismiss any thought that leads to discouragement.

Girls have to be toughened so they can survive a world that presses harder on women.

That boy needs a hobby." "Stalking is a hobby." "So is serial killing.

It was the time of year, the time of day, for a small insistent sadness to pass into the texture of things. Dusk, silence, iron chill. Something lonely in the bone.

I always thought I desperately wanted a husband and a big family, because I didn't have it growing up.

I never could make out what those damned dots meant.

If you want to judge my thinking, look at The Sun.

It's a love story, baby, just say, Yes.