Bullies often act out by marshaling aggression to cover up for insecurity.

Unsolicited advice is always self-serving.

People don't change when they don't acknowledge their actions.

Climb aboard life's elevator, hit the "up" button, and see where it takes you.

Sometimes the way through someone's tough outer shell is to do something obvious, thoughtful and sweet.

This is a tough situation. But it is what it is, and time has an amazing way of knitting together solutions as long as everybody stays calm and resolves to be as gentle and patient as possible.

Bullies never want to acknowledge their own actions. They want to move through life without reflection or apology.

Ask 10 people about their family relationships and at least five of them will report an estrangement.

When you are criticizing someone, you should speak only to your own experience - not others'.

When the choice is between a demanding relationship and a vintage pickup truck, I'll choose the truck every time.

Do not make your current partner pay for the crimes and misdemeanors of your previous partners.

When I learnt to write I became my own master, I became very strong, and that strength is with me to this very day.

It's unfortunate that the entire country is a racist country.We're living in a country that discriminates, and has certain racist tendencies.

Women diet to retain their girlish figures or their boyish husbands.

The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity.

It's an odd feeling-farewell-there is some envy in it. Men go off to be tested for courage and if we're tested at all, it's for patience, for doing without, for how well we can endure loneliness.

Van Gogh is the best example of how a person can be on the right track, propelled by gut feeling and some kind of strange obsessive stubborn conviction, that no one seems to understand.

Resolved, that I will live so, as I shall wish I had done when I come to die.

Stop leaving and you will arrive, Stop searching and you will see, Stop running away and you will be found.

Mistakes are good, successes are great, and idleness is a sin.

The wisdom and compassion a woman can intuitively experience in childbirth can make her a source of healing and understanding for other women.