Fate is shaped half by expectation, half by inattention.

Only you pick that crab. Nobody else take it. I already know this. Everyone else want best quality. You thinking different.

Then you must teach my daughter this same lesson. How to lose your innocence but not your hope. How to laugh forever.

A psychiatrist does not want you to wake up. He tells you to dream some more, to find the pond and pour more tears into it. And really, he's just another bird drinking from your misery.

That is the way it is with a wound. The wound begins to close in on itself, to protect what is hurting so much. And once it is closed, you no longer see what is underneath, what started the pain.

When a husband stops paying attention to the garden, he's thinking of pulling up roots.

You can't stay in the dark for too long. Something inside you starts to fade, and you become like a starving person, crazy-hungry for light.

But you can't stay in the dark for so long. Something inside of you starts to fade and you become like a starving person, crazy-hungry for light.

Your tears do not wash away your sorrows. They feed someone else's joy. And that is why you must learn to swallow your own tears.

Auntie Yang is not hard of hearing. She is hard of listening.

When God calls us to do something, its rarely safe but its always right.

Every single living thing is food to at least one living thing.

Jump in the ocean of loveto die and to save at the same time.

When I lived in New York, not only did I have safety locks on the door but I had the music going, keeping the city at a distance, trying to find creative time and peace and so forth.

I used to fly off the handle in everyday life, but I'm a little calmer now.

Bringing the IRS to heel can start with re-energizing and expanding congressional investigations and holding accountable those responsible for the targeting and other abuses.

All thoughtful men are solitary and original in themselves.

I've created several musical trends, really. That's not because I'm so far out and fabulous. It's because most bands have no ideas of their own. They're so desperate they'll grab at any old straw.

The best contraceptive in the world is a good education.

Sorrow is the mere rust of the soul. Activity will cleanse and brighten it.