A child embarrassed by his mother,” she said, “is just a child who hasn’t lived long enough.

Love is how you stay alive, even after you are gone.

When someone is in your heart, they're never truly gone. They can come back to you, even at unlikely times.

Accept who you are; and revel in it.

Death ends a life, not a relationship.

This is part of what a family is about, not just love. It's knowing that your family will be there watching out for you. Nothing else will give you that. Not money. Not fame. Not work.

We all yearn for what we have lost. But sometimes, we forget what we have.

The truth is, once you learn how to die, you learn how to live.

Do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself.

Nothing haunts us like the things we don't say.

Don't cling to things because everything is impermanent.

Oh my love, I like to vanish in you like a ripple vanishes in an ocean—slowly, silently, and endlessly.

The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart.

How was she to tie herself to a man without permitting him to imprison her? And was there some means of acquiring things without those things possessing her?

If a Democrat took Republicans on rudely, they wouldn't be elevated in the Democratic Party. There's a different standard. We're supposed to be polite to people.

What [companies] are doing is they're leaving our country, and they're, believe it or not, leaving because taxes are too high and because some of them have lots of money outside of our country.

If you are open-minded and ready to learn, there are many things which you can learn not only from books and instructors but from the very life experience itself.

Jesus is not an impractical idealist; he is the practical realist.

Growing up in the Northwest, I did play in an all-girl band. I snuck into clubs. No one ever questioned or thought twice about it.

Statistically, you don't have much chance of becoming president if you're not tall and fairly handsome or at least conventional-looking.

Where I cannot satisfy my reason, I love to humour my fancy.