Critics have a problem with sentimentality. Readers do not. I write for readers.

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.

You know what really fries my Puerto rican pancakes?

We'll let our friends be the peacekeepers and the great country called America will be the pacemakers.

I had fought on behalf of man against the sea, but I realized that it had become more urgent to fight on behalf of the sea against men.

The mystery of ministry is that we have been chosen to make our own limited and very conditional love the gateway for the unlimited and unconditional love of God.

A woman, even a prude, is not long at a loss, however dire her plight. She would seen always to have in hand the fig leaf our Mother Eve bequeathed to her.

I don't want to play the same person twice, that's not why I wanted to act.

The good we have enjoyed from Heaven's free will, and shall we murmur to endure the ill?

An enemy can partly ruin a man, but it takes a good-natured injudicious friend to complete the thing and make it perfect.

Conservatism clings to what has been established, fearing that, once we begin to question the beliefs that we have inherited, all the values of life will be destroyed.