And when you love someone, seeing them sad also makes you sad.

I hope you defy the odds of most dreams and actually accomplish yours

When life gets you down do you wanna know what you’ve gotta do? . . . Just keep swimming. Just keep swimming. Just keep swimming, swimming, swimming.

There is no such thing as bad people.we're all just people who sometimes do bad things.

I'm not capable of being casual with you, Lily.

And sometimes when I feel that much emotion, something inside of me just snaps.

You don’t put pressure on me to be something I’m incapable of being. You accept me exactly how I am.

Shouldn't there be more distaste in our mouths for the abusers than for those who continue to love the abusers?

This isn't my excuse, this is my reality.

Don’ttempt the scorpion if you don’t want toget stung.

If I look closely, my failures are less about my inadequacies and more about the fact that I channel my abilities into the wrong places.

It would indeed be a tragedy if the history of the human race proved to be nothing more than the story of an ape playing with a box of matches on a petrol dump.

A house is not a home without a cat.

In most companies people make a specific contribution to the company in their function. But it is not expressed in terms of profit, only in terms of performing their function better.

Every book I write, the first thing I have to do is get into the voice, and the voice varies from book to book - that's part of what's interesting to me.

When action comes out of nothing it creates no karma.

A well balanced, inclusive approach, is essential for the proper government of any country.

Dogs wait for us faithfully.

Atheists maintain that spiritual experience is purely subjective, with no basis in a reality outside of the subject.

I can change. I can live out of my imagination instead of my memory. I can tie myself to my limitless potential instead of my limiting past