I was in awe of the mystery of human compassion and the inability of love to make the distance between us any more bearable.

How do evil people find the strength to do good?

It’s comforting to me, ” he added, “that beauty can come from violence, if only in metaphor.

It's the young who will lead us to the future."Free Trader 4 - Battle for the Amazon

You can't love your mother or father if you don't also have the capacity to grieve their deaths and, perhaps even more so, grieve parts of their lives.

things change and they are never the same again. This looks like one, of those times, Hem. That's life! Life moves on. And so should we.

I've always been fascinated by the picaresque.

Love yourself and you can heal your life.

The most effective teachers embody the teaching they give out.

It is my private life which no one knows anything about, nor ever will. It needs more than half my time if it is to be a success.

Before I put another notch in my lipstick case, you better make sure you put me in my place.

The dark, uneasy world of family life - where the greatest can fail and the humblest succeed.

Character survives; goodness lives; love is immortal.