Ann Patchett Quote

The highway of grace will get you somewhere a whole lot faster then the freeway of spite.

I've never won an award for anything, and I think it's weird. I mean, that's really cool but it's strange to think you could get an award for acting. I always thought that was strange.

Every single person is a fool, insane, a failure, or a bad person to at least ten people.

My mother told me Homer Ditto was not my father. Nope. Mom had had a fling with some other guy who was my dad. Some dude who didn't stick around too long who Mom was happy to get rid of. She chose Hom...

A man might share his wealth, but never his authority.

Life is just a schoolroom with a glorious opportunity to prepare us for eternity.

A building has integrity just like a man. And just as seldom.

The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we seek to heal - every other affliction to forget; but this wound we consider it a duty to keep open...

The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.

If I have one piece of advice to give you all about what to search for in your quest for What Next, it's to find where the line blurs between hard work and happiness for you. To find that thing where...