It was sad, the imbalance of it all. Why do kids assume so much from one parent and hold the other to a lower, looser standard?

Love is how you stay alive, even after you are gone.

When someone is in your heart, they're never truly gone. They can come back to you, even at unlikely times.

Accept who you are; and revel in it.

Death ends a life, not a relationship.

This is part of what a family is about, not just love. It's knowing that your family will be there watching out for you. Nothing else will give you that. Not money. Not fame. Not work.

We all yearn for what we have lost. But sometimes, we forget what we have.

The truth is, once you learn how to die, you learn how to live.

Do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself.

Nothing haunts us like the things we don't say.

Don't cling to things because everything is impermanent.

The meaning of life is not celebrating your birth, it is celebrating your work.

If you were a pretty boy pop singer, it would wreck you, growing older

The dark does not destroy the light; it defines it. It's our fear of the dark that casts our joy into the shadows.

I don't even like showing my stuff to publishers and editors much.

The ego seeks fame and fortune. Humility doesn't seek at all - it accepts.

Early American speeches, from Washington's to Patrick Henry's, have been detheologized in history textbooks. No one has called it censorship.

We cannot advance without new experiments in living, but no wise man tries every day what he has proved wrong the day before.

For however dutifully we record what we see around us, the common denominator of all we see is always, transparently, shamelessly, the implacable I.

The real reward for doing your best work is not the money you make but the leader you become.

Junkies might be easy to knock down, but they're never fragile. They have souls like old leather shoes studded with steel, and they're about as much good as friends.