Life sometimes gets so bogged down in the details, you forget you are living it.

The scariest thing in the world is thinking someone you love is going to die.

After all, the only way to communicate is to find someone who can comprehend; the only way to be forgiven is to find someone who is willing to forgive.

Kid says to me, "You play baseball? What position? Left out?" and gets a big laugh from the rest of the class. Kid is only one person out of 6.792 billion humans on this planet. This planet is only one-eighth of the solar system, whose sun is one of two billion stars in the Milky Way galaxy. Put it that way, the comment loses it's importance.

There are so many ways to betray someone. You can whisper behind his back. You can deceive him on purpose. You can deliver him into the hands of his enemy, when he trusts you. You can break a promise. The question is, if you do any of those things, are you also betraying yourself?

She shrugged. "You can be happy for someone else's good fortune, but that doesn't mean you forget your own bad luck.

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