Children forget that sometimes. They think of themselves as a burden instead of a wish granted.

When someone is in your heart, they're never truly gone. They can come back to you, even at unlikely times.

It's such a shame to waste time. We always think we have so much of it.

One day spent with someone you love can change everything.

When you look into your mother’s eyes, you know that is the purest love you can find on this earth.

But she wasn’t around, and that’s the thing when your parents die, you feel like instead of going in to every fight with backup, you are going into every fight alone.

You can find something truly important in an ordinary minute.

Sharing tales of those we've lost is how we keep from really losing them.

I thought about the days i had handed over to a bottle..the nights i can't remember..the mornings i slept thru..all the time spent running from myself.

I think what you notice most when you haven’t been home in a while is how much the trees have grown around your memories.

Once heaven is done with grandma, we'd like her back, thanks.

That’s the thing about jazz: it’s free flowing, it comes from your soul.

Isn't it funny how we live inside the lies we believe?

Live mindful of how brief your life is.

I try to ground most of my characters in reality somehow. That's kind of what I bring to the table.

Literally thousands of lawsuits have been filed against the NFL by retired players, many of whom say that information on brain injury in football was withheld from them.

And sometimes I sit down to write, because that is what I like to do more and more in the future.

Normally I don't compromise at all but it felt important to give that song the chance to be heard.

Marketing is the set of human activities directed at facilitating and consummating exchanges.

One impulse of photography, as immediate as its impulse to extend the visible, is to theatricalize its subjects. The photographer's command, Watch the birdie! is essentially a stage direction.

We are not altogether here to tolerate. We are here to resist, to control and vanquish withal.