The first casualty of hitting rock bottom is vanity.

Psychologists tested the story of the Good Samaritan. What they learned gives us reason to pause. The greatest determinant of who stopped to help the stranger in need was not compassion, morality, or religious creed. It was those who had the time. Makes me wonder if I have time to do good.

There are far too many people for us to think about each of them during our short stay on earth—like the thousands of books in a library we haven’t time to read in an afternoon. But this is no excuse to cease browsing. For every now and then, we find that one book that reaches us deep inside and introduces us to ourselves. And, in someone else’s story, we come to understand our own.

The idea of being a novelist is really romantic, but it's kind of the same as being president of the United States - it's not gonna happen.

The further along we get on our life journey the more we wonder about those who traveled before us and paved the road.

It's a shame that humans don't come with reset buttons.

Small kindnesses often, unintentionally, produce the biggest payoffs.