I love music, singing, and playing piano (though I'm not very good). And I adore musical theater.

But love is something that has to be as selfish as it is unselfish. You can't make yourself love someone because you feel like you should. Just wanting to love someone isn't enough.

I am a gym rat who loves to work out, particularly running, Zumba, yoga, cycling, and kickboxing.

I'm not asking for forever, Tamani said. Yet. I'm just asking for a moment.

Guess I've been reading too much fantasy.

No - the light in Tamani's eyes was much more than a reflection. It was the fire that melted her anger and devastated her resolve, every single time she saw it.

Are you looking for something real in this world of illusions? Call me. Casual Flings need not apply. I am looking for Love.

All I'm saying is that you shouldn't stay with him for the wrong reasons, even if they are noble ones. No one owes it to someone else to be their girlfriend. It's a choice you remake every day.

I just don't want to cozy up to the guy whose girl I have every intention of stealing.

Square root of a cosine? How is that ever going to be useful?

At the end of 'Illusions,' readers should see the inevitable coming.

Polarization breeds respect

No place does home-turf nutjobs like America.

How is it possible to know so much about a person and yet know nothing at all?

Poetry will absorb and transmute, as it always has done, and glorify, all that we can know.

Uninvited criticism is insult.

Follow the wisdom of the great actor, James Cagney, you hit your mark, you look the other guy in the eye, and you tell the truth.

If children gave up when they fell for the first time, they would never learn to walk.

Master of the universe but not of myself, I am the only rebel against my absolute power.

3. It is said that the I-activity is the root of all activities. From where the I-thought emerges, that in short is the heart.

It is one proof of a good education and of true refinement of feeling, to respect antiquity.