Don't give me no rotten tomato, 'cause all I ever wanted was your sweet potato.

Don't think or judge, just listen.

There comes a time when the world gets quiet and the only thing left is your own heart. So you'd better learn the sound of it. Otherwise you'll never understand what it's saying.

Your actions is like a raindrop; it falls into the pond making ripples and then its over.

It's a lot easier to be lost than found. It's the reason we're always searching and rarely discovered--so many locks not enough keys.

Looking at the pond, all I could think was that it is an incredivle thing, how a whole world can rise from what seems like nothing at all.

If you didn't love him, this never would have happened. But you did. And accepting that love and everything that followed it is part of letting it go.

You should never be surprised when someone treats you with respect, you should expect it.

Sometimes a question can hurt more than an answer.

Being brave and self-confident doesn't necessarily start inside...It starts with the rest of the world, and it leads back to you.

There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment.

I finally understood that what we put into the world, into the universe, often has a way of coming right back to us.

Think honestly.Think humbly.Think honorably.Think happily.

An idler and a sluggard are as different as a gourmand and a glutton.

Mediocrity would always win by force of numbers, but it would win only more mediocrity.

Don't do speed, speed turns you in to your parents.

I'm at the eye doctor. I'm always at the eye doctor. It's like this is my profession. I am no longer a writer, I'm now an optomoligical patient. By the way, this job doesn't pay well.

King Constantine IX of Regia had been killed three times and was bored with it. He wanted a bath.

The clearer the rules and the limits enforced by parents, the higher the child's self-esteem. The more freedom the child had, the lower his self-esteem.

It's called 'reading'. It's how people install new software into their brains.

As an undergraduate I held many small jobs as an illustrator.