remember this: When you cross my doorstep, you have already been raised. With what you have learned... you know the difference between right and wrong. Do right. Don't anybody raise you from the way...

There were people who went to sleep last night, poor and rich and white and black, but they will never wake again. And those dead folks would give anything at all for just five minutes of this weather...

Master, go on, and I will follow theeTo the last gasp with truth and loyalty.

the scary part is that people don't realize how much they've changed .

You see, the catch about portrait painting-I've looked into the thing a bit- is that you can't startpainting portraits till people come along and ask you to, andthey won't come and ask you to until...

The world is fairly studded and strewn with pennies cast broadside by a generous hand. But- and this is the point- who gets excited by a mere penny? But if you cultivate a healthy poverty and...

The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.

Sometimes it made her want to put her fist through glass; other times, it made her cry a river.

You know, the mind is a remarkable thing. Just because you can't see the wound doesn't mean it isn't hurting. It scars all the time, but it heals.

Tendencies. Yougottendencies. Soevenifyoudideverythingoveragain, yourwholelife, yougottendenciestodojustwhatyoudid, alloveragain. -The Sheep Man.

In everybody's life there's a point of no return. And in a very few cases, a point where you can't go forward anymore. And when we reach that point, all we can do is quietly accept the fact. That's...

Mary watched the sunset from her carriage window, realizing that such beauty could never last. Life was a golden glory that faded in the wink of an eye. Life was a village fair that only lasted for a...

The difference between the university graduate and the autodidact lies not so much in the extent of knowledge as in the extent of vitality and self-confidence

Every time you see someone's bright-and-shiny, remember: They have their own crappy truths too. Of course they do. And every time you see your own crappy truth and feel despair and think, 'Is this my...

I was sitting on the roof, and she didn't see me. I sit on the roof a lot. People never think to look up.

I used to belong to a family unit, with a foster mom and dad and my little sister, Bean, but that's over and I don't want to talk about what happened , or how unfair it was. Not yet. The less said...

Nothing fun in life is easy.

Today, understanding the world's ability to press until I do what I don't do, I have matured. With what attitude I perform my role, that depends solely on me.

Most important thing in life is learning how to fall.

I've had my world totally tipped upside down - my whole present and future ripped apart, and I need to know that when I manage to tip it back up the right way again, I put everything back in the...

We're teaching the wrong things. And you have to be strong enough to say if the culture doesn't work, don't buy it. Create your own.

He loved to smile. He avoided anger. He was never haunted by Why am I here? He knew why he was here, he said: to give to others, to celebrate God, and to enjoy and honour the world he was put in. His...

You can't substitute material things for love or for gentleness or for tenderness or for a sense of comradeship