But common sense has no place in first love and never has.

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 dear! No matter where you are, I will be with you either in person or in my heart.

If love and death did not exist, tears would not exist as well!

First of all, these lenders are not babies. These are total killers. These are not the nice, sweet little people you think. You're living in a world of make-believe.

I use the cigar for timing purposes. If I tell a joke, I smoke as long as they laugh and when they stop laughing I take the cigar out of my mouth and start my next joke.

From the beginning, when I first got an idea for a story and wondered if I could write it, it has always been the story that has driven me.

By lifting each other up we lift ourselves up

Such a morning it is when love leans through geranium windows and calls with a cockerel's tongue. When red-haired girls scamper like roses over the rain-green grass, and the sun drips honey.

The truth is, I've been lucky. But just like the waltz, life has its own rhythm of rise and fall.

I'm interested in designing not the object but the process that leads to the object.

I only do two things in my life, and that's take care of my kids and work. Fortunately, these are my favorite things to do, so it works out.