Or maybe watching you enjoy a carefree summer while you fell in love was what kept me out of the hospital in the first place.

I mean, if the relationship can't survive the long term, why on earth would it be worth my time and energy for the short term?

Life, he realize, was much like a song. In the beginning there is mystery, in the end there is confirmation, but it's in the middle where all the emotion resides to make the whole thing worthwhile.

In the end you should always do the right thing even if it's hard.

We are not perfect. We make mistakes. We screw up but then we forgive and move forward.

He stared at her, knowing with certainty that he was falling in love. He pulled her close and kissed her beneath a blanket of stars, wondering how on earth he'd been lucky enough to find her.

The pieces all fit together. Yet everything was falling apart.

Emotions come and go and can't be controlled so there's no reason to worry about them. That in the end, people should be judged by their actions since in the end it was actions that defined everyone.

Strange, what being forced to slow down could do to a person.

It hadn't been so long ago, yet sometimes she felt that she'd been an altogether different person back then.

People didn't change. they liked what they liked even if they didn't understand why.

In a war, the first casualty is human dignity.

It's all right to have expectations in marriage. Just remember to keep them at the feet of Jesus, not at the feet of your spouse

You will learn to make better decisions in life with experience and time.

We do not "come into" this world; we come out of it, as leaves from a tree.

Culture is activity of thought, and receptiveness to beauty and humane feeling. Scraps of information have nothing to do with it. A merely well informed man is the most useless bore on God's earth.

I was an avid swimmer and was state champ at age 12.

A grave, on which to rest from singing?

What discord should we bring into the universe if our prayers were all answered! Then we should govern the world, and not God. And do you think we should govern it better?

Life is like art - it is all about interpretation.

I think you have an obligation to be an optimist. Because if you're not, nothing will change