...your life is yours to shape as you wish with free will...

Do not doubt the beauty of your heart.

Knowing the names of things is a way to pay respect to the beauty of the world...

...the more we learn, the more we realize how much we don't know.

We make so many of our own troubles, from mere mishaps to disasters, by dwelling on the possibility of them until the possible becomes inevitable.

All death matters.""Only to the living.

The dead can be even more frustrating to deal with than are many of the living, which is astonishing when you consider it's the living who run the Department of Motor Vehicles.

I never plan for the future but wander into it with a smile on my face, hope in my heart, and the hair up on the nape of my neck.

If there's nothing to learn because we know it all, what's the challenge? Why would the effort matter? What would be the point? - Odd Thomas

Virtue is imaginative, evil repetitive.

In memory, she lived and moved and laughed, but all that a photograph could offer was one frozen moment of a life.

Who cares if you have a girlfriend, anyway?""I care" Simon said gloomily. "Pretty soon the only people left without a girlfriend will be me and Wendell the school janitor. And he smells like windex.

What is called true happiness? It is 'chit prasannta' (blissful state of chit). The person who has attained 'chit prasannta', he need not beg for anything in this world!

And this new air was so delicious, and all his old life seemed so far away, that he forgot for a moment about his bruises and his aching muscles.

It's as if my footprints were already on the road before I even got there.I walk into them, my waiting footprints.

Are you still upset I murdered our parents? - Tommy to Danny

Energy independence and energy security are really two different things.

Vietnam, me love you long time. All day, all night, me love you long time.

For every day we don't unlock our own value, we remain plugged into our other identity.

And so I came to understand why some masters sometimes say, "You are already enlightened."

The only true voyage of discovery, . . . would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes.