But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.

Attention shifted to him like sunflowers turning to the sun.

hills that stand soft and a sky that stands high and blue, and the sun setting behind a windmill, and always, always, hazy strings of mountains that fall and fall away on the horizon.

One could not count the moons that shimmer on her roofs, Or the thousand splendid suns that hide behind her walls.

And that's the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too.

A man who has no conscience, no goodness, does not suffer.

Nothing good came free. Even love. You paid for all things. And if you were poor, suffering was your currency.

But time, it is like charm. You never have as much as you think.

The desert weed lives on, but the flower of spring blooms and wilts.

I wondered if that was how forgiveness budded; not with the fanfare of epiphany, but with pain gathering its things, packing up, and slipping away unannounced in the middle of the night.

Quiet is peace. Tranquility. Quiet is turning down the volume knob on life. Silence is pushing the off button. Shutting it down. All of it.

You are the most important thing to me now. The most important thing to me ever.

We can bring heaven on the earth when we have compassion for all living beings.

You can go as far as you dream, think and imagine.

The only reason I became the singer in the band is because I sang the best. It wasn't out of some desire to be a star or be a famous singer. It's not like I love interviews.

The most important thing for a good marriage is to learn how to argue peaceably.

There was that word again.Mature. Was this what maturity was? Giving up on the things we wanted because we knew we'd never get them?

Never go for a 50-50 ball unless you're 80-20 sure of winning it.

It's hard to get justice in the real world. It's possible in fiction.

I would wear flamboyant clothes and long hair, and most singers at the time didn't.

It's time you realized that you have something in you more powerful and miraculous than the things that affect you and make you dance like a puppet.