To lead the orchestra, you have to turn your back on the crowd.

God loves you just the way you are, but He refuses to leave you that way. He wants you to be just like Jesus.

If God had a refrigerator, your picture would be on it. If He had a wallet, your photo would be in it. He sends you flowers every spring and a sunrise every morning... Face it, friend. He is crazy about you!

You weren't an accident. You weren't mass produced. You aren't an assembly-line product. You were deliberately planned, specifically gifted, and lovingly positioned on the earth by the Master Craftsman.

Forgiveness is unlocking the door to set someone free and realising you were the prisoner!

Forgive and give as if it were your last opportunity. Love like there's no tomorrow, and if tomorrow comes, love again.

You are the only you God made... God made you and broke the mold.

Faith is not the belief that God will do what you want. It is the belief that God will do what is right.

A woman's heart should be so hidden in God that a man has to seek Him just to find her.

Times i think u were the most cherished trophy i had, but sometimes i think i was the game that you played.

Everything is connected to everything else, every story overlaps with every other story.

Peace on earth, good will toward men. Piss on earth, good will toward none.

Books force you to give something back to them, to exercise your intelligence and imagination.

A crisscross of light and shadow began to form on the pavement in front of him, and it was a beautiful thing to behold, he felt, a small, unexpected gift on the heels of such sadness and pain.

But money, of course, is never just money. It's always something else, and it's always something more, and it always has the last word.

Would it not be better to learn the truth once and for all instead of living in a state of perpetual uncertainty?

Raymond Chandler invented a new way of talking about America, and America has never looked the same to us since.

I cannot say who I will be tomorrow. Each day is new, and each day I am born again. I see hope everywhere, even in the dark, and when I die, I will perhaps become God.

He is twenty-eight years old, and to the best of his knowledge he has no ambitions. No burning ambitions, in any case, no clear idea of what building a plausible future might entail for him.

Real love...is when you get as much pleasure from giving pleasure as you do from receiving it.

We are all aliens to ourselves.

... that once you throw your life to the winds, you will discover things you had never known before, things that cannot be learned under any other circumstances.

By wandering aimlessly, all places became equal, and it no longer mattered where he was.

...the people closest to him had learned to accept this absence,to treat it as the fundamental quality of his being.