Dying ain't important. Everyone does that. What's important is how well you do your living.

...part of the mind's job was to cast doubt on what the heart knew to be true, and the heart, because it had no words, often lost the argument

... the object of learning was not to build a better mousetrap but to ask a better question.

To write and not tell the truth? That would be death for any writer. But more, it would be death to the imagination. And if the imagination dies, what would happen to the souls of children?

Being a failure at living your own life as best as you can is better than being a success living the life somebody else says you should live.

But I want you around even when I don't need you. —Jeremy Richards

Faith is not something that one has; faith is something that one practices at the very moment in your life when you really don't believe anything, and you're in the worst kind of despair.