It had to teach her to think of love as a state of grace: not the means to anything but the alpha and omega, an end it itself.

A true friend is the one who holds your hand and touches your heart.

Nobody deserves your tears, but whoever deserves them will not make you cry.

What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.

I have learned that a man has the right and obligation to look down at another man, only when that man needs help to get up from the ground.

No matter what, nobody can take away the dances you've already had.

Tell him yes. Even if you are dying of fear, even if you are sorry later, because whatever you do, you will be sorry all the rest of your life if you say no.

Life is not what one lived, but what One remembers and how One remembers it in order to recount it

The only regret I will have in dying is if it is not for love.

Don't struggle so much, the best things happen when not expected.

If you love something - let. If it is yours - it will come back. I love you not because of who you are, but for who I am when I'm with you.

Three scents accompany my memories of this place: cut wood, poppy-seed bread, and the soft, crisp smell of snow.

You are waterI’m waterwe’re all water in different containersthat’s why it’s so easy to meetsomeday we’ll evaporate together.

I know you’ve forgotten me, but I’ll remember you as long as I live.

I've always loved writing. Doing that at the same time as playing music can be tiring.

Most problems in contemporary churches can be explained by the fact that members have never decided to follow Christ.

You read so much about the healing power of memoir, but you don't read about the wounding power it has first. The recollection of past events is not, in and of itself, therapeutic.

I feel very troubled in the head and heart.

Looking backward at what has been lost, I feel sad, then indifferent, and at last relieved.

If Communism goes, I've still got the U.S. House of Representatives.

I am a human being. I am not an actor.