Remember, Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies

Humor is almost always anger with its make-up on

It was the possibility of darkness that made the day seem so bright

People don't get better, they just get smarter. When you get smarter you don't stop pulling the wings off flies, you just think of better reasons for doing it

Your first impulse is to share good news, your second is to club someone with it

I am always chilled and astonished by the would-be writers who ask me for advice and admit, quite blithely, that they "don't have time to read." This is like a guy starting up Mount Everest saying that he didn't have time to buy any rope or pitons.

If you've ever been homesick, or felt exiled from all the things and people that once defined you, you'll know how important welcoming words and friendly smiles can be.

Oh shit, the mummy's after us, let's all walk a little faster

Faith is a great thing, and really religious people would like us to believe that faith and knowing are the same thing, but I don't believe that myself. Because there are too many different ideas on the subject. What we know is this: When we die, one of two things happens. Either our souls and thoughts somehow survive the experience of dying or they don't. If they do, that opens up every possibility you could think of. If they don't, it's just blotto. The end

Optimism is a perfectly legitimate response to failure

The goodbyes we speak and the goodbyes we hear are the good byes that tell us we're still alive

There may be fairies, there may be elves, but God helps those who help themselves

The thought process can never be complete without articulation.

A person can go along quite awhile if they get a good day every once and again.

Memory is the basis of every journey.

Laughter, Susannah would later reflect, is like a hurricane: once it reaches a certain point, it becomes self-feeding, self-supporting. You laugh not because the jokes are funny but because your own condition is funny.

Because things can get better, and if you give them a chance, they usually do

You could start at a path leading nowhere more fantastic than from your own front steps to the sidewalk, and from there you could go… well, anywhere at all.

It was how wars really ended, Dieffenbaker supposed -- not at truce tables but in cancer wards and office cafeterias and traffic jams. Wars died one tiny piece at a time, each piece something that fell like a memory, each lost like an echo that fades in winding hills. In the end even war ran up the white flag. Or so he hoped. He hoped that in the end even war surrendered

The shining. It was a good name, a comforting name, because she had always thought of it as a dark thing

Relief loosens tongues beyond measure.

I like to hang out clothes on windy days. Sometimes that's all I feel like. A sheet on a line.

Life could sometimes be grand.

When one has little faith, one must survive from day to day signs-

When you get old, peace is about all you want.

I did something good for you just now. Before the sun goes down tonight, I want you to pass it on

But how you feel and how long you feel it doesn’t always have a lot to do with objective truth

You always know the truth, because when you cut yourself or someone else with it, there's always a bloody show

The future was cloudy, but tonight the moon was bright.

The little ones are the only good human beings.

But even things not there have weight. Negative weight which is the worst kind.

I think different. And I can think different if I want to.

For your family, you do all that you can

Life is like a wheel. Sooner or later, it always comes around to where you started again

Get busy living or get busy dying

Get busy living or get busy dying

When his life was ruined, his family killed, his farm destroyed, Job knelt down on the ground and yelled up to the heavens, "Why god? Why me?" and the thundering voice of God answered, There's just something about you that pisses me off.

Time takes it all, whether you want it to or not.

We never know which lives we influence, or when, or why.

No one ever does live happily ever after, but we leave the children to find that out for themselves.

What we like to think of ourselves and what we really are rarely have much in common....

It always comes down to just two choices. Get busy living, or get busy dying.

I wouldn't have missed a single minute of it, Not for the whole world.

Best not to look back. Best to believe there will be happily ever afters all the way around - and so there may be; who is to say there will not be such endings? Not all boats which sail away into darkness never find the sun again, or the hand of another child; if life teaches anything at all, it teaches that there are so many happy endings that the man who believes there is no God needs his rationality called into serious question..

The world's a hard place, Danny. It don't care. It don't hate you and me, but it don't love us, either. Terrible things happen in the world, and they're things no one can explain. Good people die in bad, painful ways and leave the folks that love them all alone. Sometimes it seems like it's only the bad people who stay healthy and prosper. The world don't love you, but your momma does and so do I

We fool ourselves so much we could do it for a living.

You are the grim, goal-oriented ones who will not believe that the joy is in the journey rather than the destination no matter how many times it has been proven to you.

Get busy living or get busy dying.....there ain't nothing inbetween

Life is fair. We all get the same nine-month shake in the box, and then the dice roll. Some people get a run of sevens. Some people, unfortunately, get snake-eyes. Its just how the world is.

Long days and pleasant nights