Perhaps it is possible to discover more in silence than in speech. Or perhaps it is only that those who are silent among us learn to listen.

Feel lucky for what you have when you have it. Isn't that the point? Happily ever after doesn't mean happy forever.

...and so many orchards circled the village that on some crisp October afternoons the whole wold smelled like pie.

Pride is a funny thing; it can make what is truly worthless appear to be a treasure.

Everything we knew condemned us, and our questioning condemned us most of all. Knowledge was the way of our people, and knowledge was dangerous. It was the first thing that freed you and the thing that put you in peril. It was the key to the ten gates. I saw them clearly now, each and every one, the gates that were there for me. Ashes, Bones, Grass, Heart, Stone, Love, Sorrow, Blood, Earth, Sky.

Sometimes movies really are the best medicine.

If we had paid attention, we would have understood there are some things in this world you cannot outrun.