“Actually, all fear is born of the imagination, which means the danger we fear doesn't need to be rational or even real to be potent. Like my fear of snakes. When I was eighteen I drove my car off t...”

“Chocolate is God's apology for brocolli”

“Sometimes its not the strength but gentleness that cracks the hardest shells.”

“It is in the dark times that the light of friendship shines brightest. (The Walk - Chapter 19, Page 122”

“Feelings can be like wild animals-we underrate how fierce they are until we've opened their cage”

“It has been said that sometimes the greatest hope in our lives is just a second chance to do what we should have done right in the first place.”

“In a universe where all life is in movement, where ever fact seen in perspective is totally engaging, we impose stillness on lively young bodies, distort reality to dullness, make action drudgery. ...”

“If only she could be so oblivious again, to feel such love without knowing it, mistaking it for laughter. ”

“When you're a kid all you know is that your dad puts on his suit or overalls and vanishes from your life until nightfall. Sometimes my pops came back exhausted and scarlet-eyed, as if he'd been eng...”

“Nature's first green is gold,Her hardest hue to hold.Her early leaf's a flower;But only so an hour.Then leaf subsides to leaf.So Eden sank to grief,So dawn goes down to day.Nothing gold can stay.”

“It is not only the size of these redwoods but their strangeness that frightens them. And why not? For these are the last remaining members of a race that flourished over four continents as far back...”

“It all goes away. Eventually, everything goes away.”