Give up your dreams

Discipline is a bridge built through everyday action.

You listen to people, you listen so deeply that you can hear their past lives, The crackle of their funeral pyres,

Together with the call comes responsibility

You don't know your father, do you?”I shook my head. "No. All I know is he must have had wicked cool hair.”Dimitri glanced up, and his eyes swept me. "Yes. He must have.

There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.

A little nonsense now and then, is cherished by the wisest men.

My mother would take groups of students to different countries and always brought us along, so by the time I was 10, I had been to Russia, China, Nicaragua and several other countries.

It’s precisely because of the pain, the we can get the feeling, through this process, of really being alive—or at least a partial sense of it.

I was taking a nose dive somewhere between eleven and twelve because my sister had died and I was practicing something that siblings do which is follow in their footsteps and die as well.

Family violence is a criminal act; perpetrators, while often former victims themselves, need to accept culpability.