Don’t love deeply, till you make sure that the other part loves you with the same depth, because the depth of your love today, is the depth of your wound tomorrow.

One thing I've learned: we don't stumble accidentally into an amazing life. It takes decision, a commitment to consistently work on ourselves.

You don't have to be a poet to express you feelings to her, just say whats in your mind and she will relate.

As far as keeping my sanity, it's something I've only recently tried to focus on as a means of self-preservation.

For the first time, we saw our world, not as a solid, immovable, kind of indestructible place, but as a very small, fragile-looking world just hanging against the blackness of space.

You have to like your character, because if you don't, no one else will either.

Certainly it is one of our sweetest experiences that when we are touched by some noble affection or pure joy, we remember the dead most tenderly, and feel more powerfully drawn to them.

You need something that puts a little distance between what you really are and what you want to show; it's a shield, a protection.

I can't change the past, but one person can change the future - anything can happen.

If you want to talk to God, pray. If you want him to talk to you, read your scriptures.

The one who knows himself isn't deceived by either praise or criticism.