They all knew this, but this didn't stop them from good-naturedly crowding around the front door every time it opened, every single time, despite the fact that they were never -EVER- let into the house. I loved this particularly fine thing about dogs: Despite a lifetime of denied entrance, hope never died in their hearts.

It's amazing what you can see when you just sit quietly and look.

It is better to travel with hope in one's heart than to arrive in safety. . . . We should celebrate today's failure because it is a clear sign that our voyage of discovery is not yet over. The day the experiment succeeds is the day the experiment ends. And I inevitably find that the sadness of ending outweighs the celebration of success.

The strongest people in the world are the ones who think they're weak.

I had never seen a real live dead person.

We had been so close to missing each other, he and I. He had turned out to be the greatest gift of all.

It was too bad, but sometimes a little knowledge could ruin your whole day, or at least take off some of the shine.