gardening is a madness and a rapture.

Sometimes the best things in life are unexpected.

Not everything in church is truth ... And not all truth turns up in church.

He found me when I was at my lowest point.

Why do you still feel the need to punish yourself for something that was out of your control?

If you're around someone who makes you feel good, you have to go for it. Don't hold back.

Chemistry's a tricky thing, and if I'm not feeling it, I'm not gonna pretend.

This is New York, babe. Be ready to expect anything.

I always fantasized about having a girl stand on my bar like in that movie Coyote Ugly, but I never thought it would happen.

I know this much: if you gotta write, honey, you gotta write. Some call it a disease, some a madness. Ah, but I call it love.

Better to fail at what you love than succeed at what you hate. People have strange ideas about success ... too much to do with money, not enough to do with joy.

Was then not all sorrow in time, all self-torment and fear in time? Were not all difficulties and evil in the world conquered as soon as one conquered time, as soon as one dispelled time?

Soon we could barely recognize them. They were taller than we were, and heavier. They were loud beyond belief. I feel like a duck that's hatched goose's eggs.

I spent a lot of time vacillating between wanting to be seen as attractive, being terrified by too much attention, and wanting to succeed and fit in without anyone's noticing me.

When the dead betray the living, the victims are memories.--The Book of Brin

The stories we love may not always fit neatly into a single time line, but they will always matter.

The US-led invasion of Iraq was an illegal act that contravened the UN charter.

I'm only 19. It's kinda crazy if you're older and putting expectations on a poor 19-year-old.

You cannot make your opportunities concur with the opportunities of people whose incomes are ten times greater than yours.

As your awareness of the riches available to you in your everyday life grows, you are on the way to becoming the laughing Buddha. Life is joyous. Life is Light. Life is happy. You are awake at last.

All great undertakings are achieved through mighty obstacles. Keep up the deepest mental poise. Take not even the slightest notice of what puerile creatures may be saying against you.