It is better to be loved by one person who knows your soul than millions who don't even know your phone number.

Dance. Dance for the joy and breath of childhood. Dance for all children, including that child who is still somewhere entombed beneath the responsibility and skepticism of adulthood. Embrace the moment before it escapes from our grasp. For the only promise of childhood, of any childhood, is that it will someday end. And in the end, we must ask ourselves what we have given our children to take its place. And is it enough?

Regret is the most tiresome of companions.

Forgiveness does not require us to close our eyes but rather to truly open them.

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.

Without great mountains we cannot reach great heights.

Leah taught me that the greatest secret of life is that we find exactly what we're looking for. In spite of what happens to us, ultimately we decide whether our lives are good or bad, ugly or beautiful.