The only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves.

When nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that blow that did it, but all that had gone before.

Have a PBS mind in an MTV world.

Everything you can imagine is real.

The eyes believe themselves; the ears believe other people.

I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.

The soul must long for God in order to be set aflame by God's love; but if the soul cannot yet feel the longing, then it must long for the longing. To long for the longing is also from God.

And when you're through wishing you were more, then you can settle back and let your Father breathe.

Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.

As we grow up, we learn that even the one person that wasn't supposed to ever let you down probably will. You will have your heart broken probably more than once and it's harder every time. You'll break hearts too, so remember how it felt when yours was broken. You'll fight with your best friend. You'll blame a new love for things an old one did. You'll cry because time is passing too fast, and you'll eventually lose someone you love.
So take too many pictures, laugh too much, and love like you've never been hurt because every sixty seconds you spend upset is a minute of happiness you'll never get back.
Don't be afraid that your life will end, be afraid that it will never begin.