If to live is to die, then to die is to live on.

The bad news is, our past defines us. However, the good news is, our future will someday be a part of that past.

The selfish fruit tree that grows farthest away from travelers competes with the most weeds.

If wishes were grains of sand, the world would be a desert.

Love doesn't hurt, love doesn't cut, and in dark times love doesn't cease.Love heals, love seals, it drains out the world and leaves you with peace.

If you are the one perfect person in an imperfect world, you are flawed.

What we gain in the world, we lose in the world, forgotten in death. We must rather fancy what we brought into the world, for therein lives our story, our legend.

The man who has never been disappointed has never understood happiness, the man who has never been anxious has never learned patience, the man who has never been depressed will never know ecstasy.

Good deeds may not lead to heaven...still do deeds that make you feel like you are in there already.

Authors are the closest thing man would come to understanding God. It is a remarkable thing to conjure up a life and create its story.