A broken heart bleeds tears.

The road to success is always under construction.

I want to be in a relationship where you telling me you love me is just a ceremonious validation of what you already show me.

When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive—to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love—then make that day count!

If you're not comfortable enough with yourself or with your own truth when entering a relationship, then you're not ready for that relationship.

It is only with true love and compassion that we can begin to mend what is broken in the world. It is these two blessed things that can begin to heal all broken hearts.

When you say "I" and "my" too much, you lose the capacity to understand the "we" and "our".

Incredible change happens in your life when you decide to take control of what you do have power over instead of craving control over what you don't.

At the end of the day, let there be no excuses, no explanations, no regrets.

You must learn to let go. Release the stress. You were never in control anyway.

It is important that we forgive ourselves for making mistakes. We need to learn from our errors and move on.

We cannot escape our origins, however hard we try, those origins which contain the key -could we but find it- to all we later become

It's wisest always to be so clad that our friends need not ask us for our names.

The tuba is certainly the most intestinal of instruments, the very lower bowel of music.

Twitter has restored my faith in humanity. I thought I'd hate it, but while there are lots of knobheads, there are even more lovely people. It delights me how witty and friendly most people are.

A dim capacity for wings demeans the dress I wear.

The NRA, with the fingers on the triggers when they kneel and pray.

I never quit. I just got fired.

There is nothing as certain as silence, stillness, and solitude to introduce you to the secrets of yourself.

Middle age: when you begin to exchange your emotions for symptoms.

My breakthrough as a reader was when I discovered the European adventure story writers - Alexander Dumas, Robert Louis Stevenson, Sir Walter Scott, to name a few.