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

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.

Memory is the basis of every journey.

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

The thought process can never be complete without articulation.

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

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

Optimism is a perfectly legitimate response to failure

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

Humor is almost always anger with its make-up on

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

The best way to cheer yourself is to cheer somebody else up.

Why is it that nobody understands me, yet everybody likes me?

A perfection of means, and confusion of aims, seems to be our main problem.

No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.

It is beauty that begins to please, and tenderness that completes the charm.

Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.

Just one smile immensely increases the beauty of the universe.