You're the answer to are we alone in the universe?

You can be the world's greatest hero or its most mild-mannered citizen, but the only person who can write your story...is you.

There is more at stake here than just our lives. It is the lives around us.

You will find peace not by trying to escape your problems, but by confronting them courageously. You will find peace not in denial, but in victory.

I said nothing. Deep inside of me, my voice screamed from a hole where I had buried it

Traveling outgrows its motives. It soon proves sufficient in itself. You think you are making a trip, but soon it is making you - or unmaking you.

I dream, sometimes I think that's the only right thing to do.

The friendship that we established early on in our marriage ... that carries you through tough times. That and a good sense of humor.

When I realised I was transgender I was so afraid of what my transition would do to everyone else in my life and how they would react to it and would I be rejected?

Thou shalt learn The wisdom early to discern True beauty in utility.

I think I always wanted to have adventures in my life. I was always kind of a rambunctious kid.

Men make counterfeit money; in many more cases, money makes counterfeit men.

And I identify too closely with my reading, with my writing.