even found myself overlooking my own flaws, for the same reasons. I didn't need to try to be perfect or in control all the time. There really was no need to impress anyone.

Handel, the one who taught Davy, when a bigger kid was picking on him at school, that revenge made a man weak, while forgiveness took a man's power back from the bully.

You may be afraid, but you may not let your fear chase you away from what must be done.

Courage is a tool and a weapon. With just a little, you can build your life and use it to fend for yourself in the world.

Scott: I don't think I'm ready to be a grown-up. Kim: I don't think you are either, buddy. But hey, you'll get it. It just takes practice.

One day, I told myself, one brave and magnificent day, I will actually be cool. I

Some wounds cut us so deep that they stop us. Stop us from letting go, from growing up, from seeing the truth.

Reading was like visiting distant friends.

Sam's just dealing with some issues. He recently came to the realization that he's a twenty - year - old virgin prude.

If my life is going to mean anything, I have to live it myself.

If you push the fear away, the only version of fear available to you will be its crazy, irrational, or contorted version. If you're willing to feel it, and merge with it, its energy and wisdom will...

We can't change the past. But we can change how much importance we allow it to have over our future.

For me, reading was adventure, but most of all, reading was escape -

It is not all books that are as dull as their readers. There are probably words addressed to our condition exactly, which, if we could really hear and understand, would be more salutary than the...

I think someday you're going to be a great writer,

But even she had figured out that there was no point giving up a great job and following him to the ends of the earth, when he simply refused to make any promises about, or even discuss, the future.

Life is a dynamic rather than a static process, and when we don't change it kills us. It's not running away, it's moving on.

Treat a child as though he is already the person he is capable of becoming. - Haim Ginott

Get used to disappointment.

"And then she got older, and . . ." Lydia shook her head. "Having a teenager is like having a really, really shitty roommate. They eat all your food and steal your clothes and take money out of your...

We're humans, so we're messy

Life's tough and even tougher when you're stupid

Don't think about why you question, simply don't stop questioning. Don't worry about what you can't answer, and don't try to explain what you can't know. Curiosity is its own reason. Aren't you in awe...

Stay humble; don't interfere; respect your creative genius

To be nobody - but - yourself - in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else - means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop...

I live by the ancient adage that I truly understand today, Fear knocked on the door; love answered, and no one was there. As one of my greatest teachers, Ralph Waldo Emerson, once observed, 'They can...

Where there is hatred, let me sow love.

parents are not for leaning upon, but rather exist to make leaning unnecessary.

People think a soul mate is your perfect fit, and that's what everyone wants. But a true soul mate is a mirror, the person who shows you everything that's holding you back, the person who brings you...

What I said to God through my gasping sobs was something like this: 'Hello, God. How are you? I'm Liz. It's nice to meet you.' That's right - I was speaking to the creator of the universe as though...