It's like when someone dies, the initial stages of grief seem to be the worst. But in some ways, it's sadder as time goes by and you consider how much they've missed in your life. In the world.

You can only control your own actions. Not other people’s reactions.

A son is a son 'til he gets a wife, but a daughter is a daughter all her life.

Love and friendship. They are what make us who we are, and what can change us, if we let them.

...love is the sum of our choices, the strength of our commitments, the ties that bind us together.

Maybe the thing to do after you roll the dice-and lose-is simply pick them up and roll them again.

When you’re in love, sometimes you have to swallow your pride, and sometimes you have to keep your pride. It’s a balance. But when the relationship is right, you find the balance.

I think of how each person in a marriage owes it to the other to find individual happiness, even in a shared life. That this is the only way to grow together, instead of apart.

Life's not black-and-white. Sometimes the ends justifies the means.

Although I'm sure there are plenty of tall, gorgeous, life-of-the-party guys who are also true to their wives, I happen to believe that a disproportionate number of them are cheaters.

I think it's important to try to be present with whatever it is you're doing. And if you can't be present, take a break.

The flickering candlelight conspired with the silence, and we only interrupted each other’s reading to share a casual delight.

Be a girl with a mind, beauty and talents!

Sometimes good is preventing us for being better".rbasequia..

I am a novelist, and my goal in writing a novel is to leave the reader not knowing what to think. A good novel shouldn't have a point.

There are no true friends in politics. We are all sharks circling, and waiting, for traces of blood to appear in the water.

I had been pretty well made a prisoner by school, by society. I had been given this description of the world that I couldn't accept.

I used to make albums because I wasn't touring, and so I thought, "This is the best way for people to find out about me.

Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.

None are ruined by the justice of God but those that hate to be reformed by the grace of God.

Every journalist has a novel in him, which is an excellent place for it.