"You are the grim, goal-oriented ones who will not believe that the joy is in the journey rather than the destination no matter how many times it has been proven to you."

"We fool ourselves so much we could do it for a living."

"I wouldn't have missed a single minute of it, Not for the whole world."

"What we like to think of ourselves and what we really are rarely have much in common...."

"We never know which lives we influence, or when, or why."

"No one ever does live happily ever after, but we leave the children to find that out for themselves."

"Time takes it all, whether you want it to or not."

"Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win."

"Get busy living or get busy dying."

"If it's ka it'll come like a wind, and your plans will stand before it no more than a barn before a cyclone"

"For men, I think, love is a thing formed of equal parts lust and astonishment. The astonishment part women understand. The lust part they only think they understand."

"love is what moves the world, I've always thought...it is the only thing which allows men and women to stand in a world where gravity always seems to want to pull them down...bring them low...and make them crawl..."

"Do any of us, except in our dreams, truly expect to be reunited with our hearts' deepest loves, even when they leave us only for minutes, and on the most mundane of errands? No, not at all. Each time they go from our sight we in our secret hearts count them as dead. Having been given so much, we reason, how could we expect not to be brought as low as Lucifer for the staggering presumption of our love?"

"Calling it a simple schoolgirl crush was like saying a Rolls-Royce was a vehicle with four wheels, something like a hay-wagon. She did not giggle wildly and blush when she saw him, nor did she chalk his name on trees or write it on the walls of the Kissing Bridge. She simply lived with his face in her heart all the time, a kind of sweet, hurtful ache. She would have died for him.."

"I think part of being a parent is trying to kill your kids."

"FEAR stands for fuck everything and run."

"Humor is almost always anger with its make-up on."

"That wasn't any act of God. That was an act of pure human fuckery."

"When his life was ruined, his family killed, his farm destroyed, Job knelt down on the ground and yelled up to the heavens, "Why god? Why me?" and the thundering voice of God answered, There's just something about you that pisses me off."

"He who speaks without an attentive ear is mute."

"Until we see each other again, keep your head together, read some good books, be useful, be happy."

"The Lord is my shepherd. I shall not want for nothing. He makes me lie down in the green pastures. He greases up my head with oil. He gives me kung-fu in the face of my enemies. Amen"