You see, some things I can teach you. Some you learn from books. But there are things that, well, you have to see and feel.

Attention shifted to him like sunflowers turning to the sun.

hills that stand soft and a sky that stands high and blue, and the sun setting behind a windmill, and always, always, hazy strings of mountains that fall and fall away on the horizon.

One could not count the moons that shimmer on her roofs, Or the thousand splendid suns that hide behind her walls.

And that's the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too.

A man who has no conscience, no goodness, does not suffer.

Nothing good came free. Even love. You paid for all things. And if you were poor, suffering was your currency.

But time, it is like charm. You never have as much as you think.

The desert weed lives on, but the flower of spring blooms and wilts.

I wondered if that was how forgiveness budded; not with the fanfare of epiphany, but with pain gathering its things, packing up, and slipping away unannounced in the middle of the night.

Quiet is peace. Tranquility. Quiet is turning down the volume knob on life. Silence is pushing the off button. Shutting it down. All of it.

Fool, there is no sense in trying to play that game with the past. Here is where we are today, and we can only make our moves from here.

Don't pretend to be what you're not, instead, pretend to what you want to be, it is not pretence, it is a journey to self realization.

Nothing else in the whole wide world matters as much as avenging your sister.

My ignorance of science is such that if anyone mentioned copper nitrate I should think he was talking about policemen's overtime.

Alaska and Montana are not in the south but they definitely form part of the crimson tide of red states where Republicans are dominant.

In the infancy of society every author is necessarily a poet

All the pictures in magazines and all of that is fun but in the end it's all about your soul and who you are and have you connected with the people.

All it takes is one idea to solve an impossible problem.

It would be very difficult to explain why the universe should have begun in just this way, except as the act of a God who intended to create beings like us.

Creativity is innate and it manifests itself in so many forms. It needs to come out somehow or it destroys you in some way.