You shouldn't imagine things that you haven't a shred of proof happened.

When you only do what is expected of you, you never learn what you would've done had you chosen for yourself.

The past hadn't been erased just because a new future had been handed it.

I don't know very many people who can piece together eloquent prayers when their souls are wounded. Words don't come at those times, but tears do. I have always thought of my tears as prayers.

We are born knowing how to be just. And we die knowing we spent a lifetime pretending we didn't.

No one thinks much about their ability to breathe; they just do it. It's when a person can't breathe, that they suddenly realize they'd been doing something truly marvelous all along.

We moved wordlessly from one room to another, from the room of the dead to the room where time lay in pages everywhere I looked.

When we trust someone, we believe what they tell us is true. We experience it as being true. It's not the experience itself that empowers us to believe it. It is the trust.

Confidence tends to minimize the magnitude of the choice.

Dissecting a book was the same as making sense of life. You have to find a way to interpret life, or you'll go nuts.

Our flaws are obvious, yet we are loved and able to love, if we choose, because there is that bit of the divine still smoldering in us.

There’s no such thing as ruining your life. Life’s a pretty resilient thing, it turns out.

Even prisoners can escape if they have books.

Never give up on your dreams! When you’re good at something, and there’s love in what you do, passion will always bring success.

The problem with being a leader is that you're never sure if you're being followed or chased.

I have stage fright every single concert I've ever done. I have at least four or five minutes of it. It's absolute living hell.

learning must travel the distance from head to heart.

...Choice in every form is conflict. Contradiction is inevitable in choice; this contradiction, inner and outer breeds confusion and misery.

He's good at that, David Beckham - he's good at kicking the ball

Do you think if the stamp-act is repealed, that the North Americans will be satisfied?

The body and mind are dependent.