Never invest yourself in anything so deeply that its failure could cost you your happiness.

...we both saw something we liked, a willingness to have no walls, or maybe just an unwillingness to keep them standing.

The two hardest things to contemplate in life ... are failure and age; those are one and the same.

Two people who think they're in love can find out, when left alone, exactly how little they know about each other.

Love lost is a special kind of failure, I think. It's a reminder that some consummations, no matter how devoutly wished for, never come; that some apes will never be men, not in all the world's ages.

The strong take from the weak, but the smart take from the strong.

The only things people can ever know about you are the ones that you let them see

...a good friend stands in harm's way for you the second you ask--but a great friend does it without being asked at all.

...-the two look at each other - one full of guilt - other full of pain - both full of unhappiness.

I didn't have that kind of friendship, the forever kind of friendship that will last your whole life through, no matter what.

Psychologists suggest that we must reach back at least three generations to look for clues whenever we begin untangling the emotional legacy of any one family's history.

I tried to teach them [his sons] that about the importance of self-discipline, and that the culture of yes is built on a foundation of no.

It is very easy to take for granted the phenomenon that we are each alive, but we must try not to.

Thus, the task is not so much to see what no one yet has seen, but to think what nobody yet has thought about that which everybody sees.

We are in an era where censorship is creeping back in through the Patriot Act and where people are.. being intimidated not to speak about what we should be speaking about.

And I'm certain one day, you'll make it back home. With love, Your friend and Cêpan, -H

Is that a joke? Please tell me you're joking. -Sophie I never joke about carnivorous bunnies. -Luca

The Scriptures are shallow enough for a babe to come and drink without fear of drowning and deep enough for theologians to swim in without ever reaching the bottom.