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.

So often the pain of our life is no more than a reminder to take our hand off the stove.

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

It was the first time that I had ever been romantically kissed. It was even better than the chocolate cake.

It has been a mistake living my life in the past. One cannot ride a horse backwards and still hold its reins.

The more someone assures you that everything is okay, the more you can be assured that it's not.

The most difficult of decisions are often not the ones in which we cannot determine the correct course; rather the ones in which we are certain of the path but fear the journey.