We remember with our emotions. The things that were important in our emotional life, that's what we remember.

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.

Some wounds go so deep that you don't even feel them until months, maybe years, later.

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?

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.

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

I'm tired of thinking and I'm really tired of Feeling. —Jenna Richards