do you fix a wheel that isn't broken, or do you wait until the cart collapses?

i'm sure i'm worth a lot more dead than alive

All it takes is a second and your whole life can get turned upside down.

I told myself that if I didn't care, this wouldn't have hurt so much - surely that proved I was alive and human and all those touchy-feely things, for once and for all. But that wasn't a relief, not when I felt like a skyscraper with dynamite on every floor.

It seems to me that no matter what religion you subscribe to, acts of kindness are the stepping-stones to making the world a better place--because we become better people in it.

How do you know that you are not part of a book? That someone's not reading your story right now?

When I was little, the great mystery to me was not how babies were made, but why?