“Our backs tell stories no books have the spine to carry.”

You have sadness living in places sadness shouldn’t live.

Trust your body it reacts to right and wrong better than your mind does.

You left and I wanted you still yet I deserved someone who was willing to stay.

I am water soft enough to offer life tough enough to drown it away.

We are all born so beautiful the greatest tragedy is being convinced we are not.

You must enter a relationship with yourself before anyone else.

I thank the universe for taking everything it has taken and giving to me everything it is giving – balance.

It takes grace to remain kind in cruel situations.

My heart woke me crying last night how can I help I begged my heart said-write the book.

We have been dying since we got here and forgot to enjoy the view – live fully.

What draws you to her, tell me what you like so I can practice.

What I miss most is how you loved me. But what I didn’t know was, how you loved me, that had so much to do with the person I was.

Borders are man-made they divide us physically don’t let them make us turn on each other – we are not enemies.

The thing worth holding onto would not have let go.

People go but how they left always stays.

Even though we were both under the same roof of that coffee shop. I was still solar systems away from you.

What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.

And we are never too old to study the Bible. Each time the lessons are studied comes some new meaning, some new thought which will make us better.

I really wanted to write a book [99: Stories of the Game] on the tradition and history of the league, where kids can pick it up and read it and learn things and say, “Geez, I didn’t know that. That’s pretty cool.”

I am a beau in nothing but my books.

The experience of writing ‘The Kite Runner’ is one I will always think back on with fondness. There is an energy, a romance in writing the first novel that can never be duplicated again.

Life doesn’t come with an instruction book; that’s why we have fathers.

Education today is a process of filling the mind with the contents of books, emptying the contents in the examination hall and returning empty-headed.

One whose knowledge is confined to books and whose wealth is in the possession of others, can use neither his knowledge nor wealth when the need for them arises.