“Do not doubt the beauty of your heart.”

“Knowing the names of things is a way to pay respect to the beauty of the world...”

“All death matters.""Only to the living.”

“The dead can be even more frustrating to deal with than are many of the living, which is astonishing when you consider it's the living who run the Department of Motor Vehicles.”

“...the more we learn, the more we realize how much we don't know.”

“I never plan for the future but wander into it with a smile on my face, hope in my heart, and the hair up on the nape of my neck.”

“You can what you wish to be.”

“Prayer is a realm of possibilities.”

“How often in life do people make that awful sacrifice, that murder of possibilities?”

“Romance is the deepest thing in life. It is deeper than reality.”

“when you're a kid, they tell you that it's what's on the inside that counts. Looks don't matter . But that's not true. Guys like Phoebus in The Hunchback, or Dorian, or the old Kyle Kingsbury-- the...”

“Every concept of reality is all in our head, belief is what makes truth.”

“Of all your troubles, great and small, the greatest are the ones that don't happen at all.”

“I have heard there are troubles of more than one kind. Some come from ahead and some come from behind. But I've bought a big bat. I'm all ready you see. Now my troubles are going to have troubles w...”