From the first time you laughed with me, all those months, and all those stories,” Joe said quietly. “They were all you, to me. All of them were you.

But the problem with looking back when you should be walking ahead is that you usually end up walking into something that hurts.

But sometimes it's the sunshine that frightens us more than the big black shadows.

When you find someone who makes you smile and laugh, when you find someone who makes you feel safe…you shouldn’t let that person go just because you’re afraid.

I waited for a long time and there was nothing but the pain of wanting something I couldn't seem to find.

You don’t have to be sad to miss someone and wish they were still in your life.

Good things, by their nature, are fleeting. It’s those that bring us grief that linger.

Love is always real, even when it doesn’t last.

All men have the stars, but they are not the same things for different people.

Jealousy smells like the water in the bottom of a flower vase after the flowers have died.

When everything changes we learn who we really are. What’s really important. What we want most. We discover the truth in moments of disarray.

Well? Is it true? Did she?""Did she what?""You know. Fall outta the crazy tree and hit every branch on the way down?

Don't confuse stories with facts. ...When you generate stories in the blink of an eye, you can get so caught up in the moment the you begin to believe your stories are facts.

The best parenting strives to educate children in how to live -- enthusiastically, compassionately, without greed, striving for a better world.

It's a rare thing graciousness. The shape of it can be acquired but not I think the substance.

As long as the Earth can make a spring every year I can. As long as the Earth can flower and produce nurturing fruit I can because I'm the Earth. I won't give up until the Earth gives up.

I love Ray Mears. He's brilliant. He's so rude about me in the press, it's outrageous!

Any thought of discomfort or stress is an alarm that lets you know you're believing an untrue thought

The American Dream is not to own your own home, but to get your kids out of it.

Literature: proclaiming in front of everyone what one is careful to conceal from one's immediate circle

Suppression of impulses that would put you in danger is obviously an important neurobiological function.