Odd: I wish I could believe in reincarnation. Chief Porter: Not me. Once down the track is enough of a test. Pass me or fail me, Dear Lord, but don't make me go through high school again. Odd: If there's something we want so bad in this life but we can't have it, maybe we could get it the next time around. Chief Porter: Or maybe not getting it, accepting less without bitterness and being grateful for what we have is a part of what we're here to learn.

No degree of prosperity can be sufficient to eliminate all misfortune, and sloth is impervious to opportunity.

He said, if you allow yourself to be enchanted by the beauty to be seen in even ordinary things, then all things proved to be extraordinary.

If someone wrote it and it had a peculiar twist, I've read it.

One of the underlying things I like to do in books, is just say, stop and look at this for a moment. Not that you've got to believe that Jesus was real, or not to believe in God, but the belief that it isn't just happenstance.

People couldn't bear to go on living if they faced every cold truth about themselves.

I would not cry. I do not cry. How bitter do you risk becoming by swallowing too many tears?