It's always very pure, that last moment before an ugly, unsettling truth hits someone. The most stark of before-and-afters.

Don't think or judge, just listen.

There comes a time when the world gets quiet and the only thing left is your own heart. So you'd better learn the sound of it. Otherwise you'll never understand what it's saying.

Your actions is like a raindrop; it falls into the pond making ripples and then its over.

It's a lot easier to be lost than found. It's the reason we're always searching and rarely discovered--so many locks not enough keys.

Looking at the pond, all I could think was that it is an incredivle thing, how a whole world can rise from what seems like nothing at all.

If you didn't love him, this never would have happened. But you did. And accepting that love and everything that followed it is part of letting it go.

You should never be surprised when someone treats you with respect, you should expect it.

Sometimes a question can hurt more than an answer.

Being brave and self-confident doesn't necessarily start inside...It starts with the rest of the world, and it leads back to you.

There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment.

Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest.

Culture, then, only truly becomes culture when it is embodied in someone.

If one suffers from the pain and the hardship, its friends feel empathy and sadness too. Whereas, its opponents celebrate and enjoy that.

It gets tiring, doing the same thing everyday.

I was the only person I'd ever met who had a record contract. None of the E Street Band, as far as I know, had been on an airplane until Columbia sent us to Los Angeles.

Many stroke survivors look back on their attack as a stroke of luck. Of course, by luck they mean horrible paralysis.

The egoic madness, or dysfunction, becomes enormously amplified by the science and technology we all have developed.

Our choices are going to determine the future for our children, our children’s children, and their children. I take that responsibility very seriously.

The lucky renew their energy through the activity in which they're engaged.

I got my dog three years ago because I was drunk in a pet store. We had nine cats at the time. The cats started hiding the alcohol after that.