"It is wisdom to recognize necessity when all other courses have been weighed, though as folly it may appear to those who cling to false hope."

"If you don't feel as close to God today as you did yesterday, who moved?"

"Somehow difficulties are easier to endure when you know your dream is waiting for you at the end."

"Rich People plan for three generationsPoor people plan for Saturday night"

"Words are tears that have been written down. Tears are words that need to be shed. Without them, joy loses all its brilliance and sadness has no end."

"All paths are the same: they lead nowhere. ... Does this path have a heart? If it does, the path is good; if it doesn't, it is of no use. Both paths lead nowhere; but one has a heart, the other doesn't. One makes for a joyful journey; as long as you follow it, you are one with it. The other will make you curse your life. One makes you strong; the other weakens you."

"Hurl yourself at goals above your head and bear the lacerations that come when you slip and make a fool of yourself. Try always, as long as you have breath in your body, to take the hard way–and work, work, work to build yourself into a rich, continually evolving entity."

"The trouble with fiction," said John Rivers, "is that it makes too much sense. Reality never makes sense."

"People don't believe what you tell them.They rarely believe what you show them.They often believe what their friends tell them.They always believe what they tell themselves."

"A woman could be as beautiful as she felt herself to be."

"Temptation is not to be feared, but controlled."

"Be compassionate ... and take responsibility for each other. If we only learned those lessons, this world would be a better place."

"In the name of the best within you, do not sacrifice this world to those who are at its worst. In the name of the values that keep you alive, do not let your vision of people be distorted by the ugly, the cowardly, the mindless in those who have never achieved integrity. Do not lose your knowledge that our proper estate is an upright posture,an intransigent mind and a step that travels unlimited roads. Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark, in the hopeless swamps of the approximate, the not-quite, the not-yet, the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish, in lonely frustration for the life you deserved, but have never been able to reach. Check your road and the nature of your battle. The world you desired can be won, it exists, it is real, it's yours."

"When those you love die, the best you can do is honor their spirit for as long as you live. You make a commitment that you're going to take whatever lesson that person or animal was trying to teach you, and you make it true in your own life... it's a positive way to keep their spirit alive in the world, by keeping it alive in yourself."

"Differences are not intended to separate, to alienate. We are different precisely in order to realize our need of one another."

"If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten."

"I was halfway across America, at the dividing line between the East of my youth and the West of my future."

"A beautiful thing happens when we start paying attention to each other. It is by participating more in your relationship that you breathe life into it."

"Dupa ce iti omori demonii, daca ai curajul sa o faci, e musai sa te intorci pe acelasi drum."

"And if you think you're alone. Put on my music. Because I'm going to be there for you."

"Plus there’s the fact,” he went on, making it clear he didn’t need me to reply anyway, “that music is a total constant. That’s why we have such a strong visceral connection to it, you know? Because a song can take you back instantly to a moment, or a place, or even a person. No matter what else has changed in you or the world, that one song stays the same, just like that moment. Which is pretty amazing, when you actually think about it."

"A book series is never truly over. The story lives on, even when the final page has been turned."