I believe that everyone deserves love, and sometimes looking outside your own culture is a good way to find it.

Unsolicited advice is always self-serving.

People don't change when they don't acknowledge their actions.

Climb aboard life's elevator, hit the "up" button, and see where it takes you.

Sometimes the way through someone's tough outer shell is to do something obvious, thoughtful and sweet.

This is a tough situation. But it is what it is, and time has an amazing way of knitting together solutions as long as everybody stays calm and resolves to be as gentle and patient as possible.

Bullies never want to acknowledge their own actions. They want to move through life without reflection or apology.

Ask 10 people about their family relationships and at least five of them will report an estrangement.

When you are criticizing someone, you should speak only to your own experience - not others'.

Bullies often act out by marshaling aggression to cover up for insecurity.

When the choice is between a demanding relationship and a vintage pickup truck, I'll choose the truck every time.

И на съвършените съвършенството е несъвършено. Св. Иоан Лествичник

We owe it to the dead to dance on their graves.

Some may call me a vigilante. I think i've got problems to fix.

By empowering women, we empower the nation.

Your obligation as writers is to distinguish yourself. … The ultimate result should be a book that you write that no one else could have written.

Do not sit next to my mother when she is watching one of her children compete because you will have fingernails down your back. She is a nervous wreck.

How can you be alienated without first having been connected?

Oh ye of little faith. Not for IYD... But you didn't even try.

I really don't know anything about music, and it's no great experience for me. But I do think that music has a purifying element.

You spend your whole life grieving for those who haven't died yet.