Men are not given awards and promotions for bravery in intimacy.

The present never ages. Each moment is like a snowflake, unique, unspoiled, unrepeatable, and can be appreciated in its surprisingness.

If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we are not really living.

To be tested is good. The challenged life may be the best therapist.

Growth demands a temporary surrender of security.

Although there are many trial marriages... there is no such thing as a trial child.

With each passage of human growth we must shed a protective structure . We are left exposed and vulnerable - but also yeasty and embryonic again, capable of stretching in ways we hadn't known before.

Husbands come and go; children come and eventually they go. Friends grow up and move away. But the one thing that's never lost is your sister.

The source of continuing aliveness was to find your passion and pursue it, with whole heart and single mind.

If every day is an awakening, you will never grow old. You will just keep growing.

Changes are not only possible and predictable, but to deny them is to be an accomplice to one's own unnecessary vegetation.

Vivi muito tempo no mundo das pessoas grandes. Vi-as de bem perto.Não fiquei com muito melhor opinião delas.

We're seeing it the same way, we're hearing the same way, we have the same conception of the situation. And so, for all purposes, we are operating with a very similar perception.

We're talking about the responsibility, my responsibility according to the Syrian constitution that said we have to defend ourselves.

Senator [Ted] Cruz is not qualified to be president because he doesn't have the right temperament and acted like a maniac when he arrived in the Senate.

The character of a whole society is the cumulative result of countless small actions, day in and day out, of millions of persons.

In effect I am not a novelist, but rather a failed essayist who started to write novels because he didn't know how to write essays.

Music is mediator between spiritual and sensual life.

I was bullied a lot in middle school, and my bullies have since all apologized.

When I'm in my 50s, I kind of think I'll want to be in a garden.

Kings in this world should imitate God, their mercy should be above their works.