But really, there are no coincidences. Coincidences are just other people's choices, plans you don't know about.

My dad always says, some people will treat you badly and you can't help that. But how you handle it and how it makes you feel, that's up to you.

My mom says that when it rains you never feel like you should be anywhere but home.

A person's birthday should be a special day, a wonderful day, a day of pure celebration for the luck of being born!

That was the very heart of friendship...your willingness to help each other in a jam, to take a friend's problems as your very own.

There is a difference between giving into something and accepting it.

The most important things in a friendship didn't have to be said out loud.

No matter what situations you experience in life, think about them as you draw conclusions about what the situations means for you

Sometimes I feel like we are the same, but sometimes, like right now, I feel the separation between our personalities like I've just run into a wall.

It is for this reason that Jesus left us the parable of the unfaithful servant, inviting us into a sincere fraternity in order that through it we could find the path of rehabilitation.

I really enjoy what I'm doing. I think you have to have a good time and not look too far back or too far ahead.

I think I settled on the title before I ever wrote the book.

The quality of wit inspires more admiration than confidence

Nobody cares that you're smart and nobody cares that your kids don't have bruises.

Ill-humor is nothing more than an inward feeling of our own want of merit, a dissatisfaction with ourselves which is always united with an envy that foolish vanity excites.

I love to read about anger. A "feel bad" book always makes me feel good. And no other novel in the history of literature is more depressing than Christina Stead's The Man Who Loved Children.

It is wise to be sure, but otherwise to be too sure.