...the person you encounter is often more than the person you see.

Finding your way doesn't mean you always know where you're going. It's knowing how to find your way back home that's important.

Memories were like sunshine. They warmed you up and left a pleasant glow, but you couldn't hold them.

Sometimes it's best not to see your whole path laid out before you. Let life surprise you...There are more stars out there than just the ones with names. And they're all beautiful.

I'd heard of really bad things Klan folks did to Negroes. Mean, hateful, deadly things. I didn't know they were hateful toward white folks too.

There are no coincidences. Just miracles by the boatload.

When there is suffering, we look for a reason. That reason is easiest found within oneself.

Who would dream that one can love without being crushed under the weight of it?

Maybe that was how I found comfort just then, even with him being so far away. By remembering the flavor of his words.

As the ocean tugged me at my feet, i realized that Early Auden, that strangest of boys, had saved me from being swept away.

What would you rather be, Jackie? Angry mad or crazy mad? I think I'd rather be crazy mad, because you can be crazy and still happy.

I don't think avoiding conflict is not caring.~Shin

If your time hasn't come not even a doctor can kill you.

Yesterday's just a memory, tomorrow is never what it's supposed to be.

If we want to make friends, let's greet people with animation and enthusiasm.

You've got to be a little vicious. You've got to be narcissistic. You've got to be on fire about your career.

Life is like unto a long journey with a heavy burden.

I get bored easily. I've been bored most of my life.

Familiarity isn't always a good thing... sometimes you need a little crisis to shake things up.

The Greeks got into Troy by trying, my pretties; everything's done by trying.

We have Not one In common No two Are shaped alike The third Because of that eye we lack In the fourth Direction there is no hope The fifth is at the heart.