Lovers are easy to find and easy to forget but finding an authentic connection is exceptional and limited. It rarely happens, which is why there are so many unhappy people out there.

Truth and integrity must be so rare these days that it confuses people when they hear it.

There is the purity of love, harmonious in every way, but not meant for a lifetime, and then there is the steady love of commitment - no less real but completely different. She had both.

Darling, if I take your breath away, I will give you mine.

We love because we can lose. If there was no threat of separation, no death to shake us to our core, we probably wouldn't love much at all.

Connecting with someone is not necessarily a bond with a significant other, or even a friend, but can be the indefinable - perhaps the rarest and most precious thing in life to find at all.

Even "meant to be" takes work.

I'd rather be befriended as an aimless lost soul than be befriended for adornment, gain or goal.

Am I a friend or a prospect? Imagine how much kinder life would be if people put as much effort into befriending others instead of trying to sell them something.

Where are the memories that held us together? Where are the dreams that were yet to come? I'm afraid to be happy. I shouldn't be happy. If I'm happy without you does that mean I've told you goodbye?

One of the disadvantages to having a choice is the inevitability to hang oneself on freedoms rope.

Begin, be bold, and venture to be wise.

Your secret sin vs your destiny you decide which one wins.

If God adds another day to our life let us receive it gladly.

Chapter one is where you reach out your hand to the reader and say, "Come, let's have an adventure together.

Learn this from water: loud splashes the brook but the oceans depth are calm.

I think one of the worst things people can do is try and fight the people they've agreed to work with.

I'm not a huge gym person, so I try to stay away from the gym. But I love to run on the beach or go for a walk. It's better than riding a stationary bike.

That which you give to another will become your own sustenance; if you light a lamp for another, your own way will be lit.

I used to get upset by people not understanding me, but I’ve made a career out of it now.

If it doesn't say Binford on it, somebody else probably made it.