It was not a happy ending of the sort in fairy tales, but it was the only one we had.

But the problem with looking back when you should be walking ahead is that you usually end up walking into something that hurts.

But sometimes it's the sunshine that frightens us more than the big black shadows.

When you find someone who makes you smile and laugh, when you find someone who makes you feel safe…you shouldn’t let that person go just because you’re afraid.

I waited for a long time and there was nothing but the pain of wanting something I couldn't seem to find.

You don’t have to be sad to miss someone and wish they were still in your life.

Good things, by their nature, are fleeting. It’s those that bring us grief that linger.

Love is always real, even when it doesn’t last.

All men have the stars, but they are not the same things for different people.

Jealousy smells like the water in the bottom of a flower vase after the flowers have died.

When everything changes we learn who we really are. What’s really important. What we want most. We discover the truth in moments of disarray.

It's the words we whisper to ourselves that make us who we are.

Lincoln had an almost childlike habit of regaling visitors with any sharp saying he'd uttered during the day, taking simple-hearted pleasure in some of his best hits.

There are two kinds of people I cannot abide: bigots and any well-organized ethnic group.

The only really interesting thing is what happens between two people in a room.

The thing about cats, as you may find, Is that no one knows what they have in mind.

I'm not interested in trying to have people who might like other kinds of music follow me. I don't want to please them.

Introverts like being introverts. We are drawn to ideas, we are passionate observers, and for us, solitude is rich and generative.

Greater love hath no man than to attend the Episcopal Church with his wife.

The secret of a happy life lies in renunciation. Renunciation is life.

Although religion was around me my whole life I never felt it was forced upon me. It is my centring, my grounding, the soul of me. I feel I'm nothing without it.