Please remember, no matter how hard it seems and no matter how badly you feel you can always become courageous.

I could get through this. I would be strong because I was so close to achieving my dream of having my kids together.

Eritrean people are strong and caring. And despite all that we had been through we were brimming with optimism. Our country was on the verge of huge change.

One might say my life has been tragic. Yet, as I sat in pain in the hospital I raised my tired hands toward the sky, palms facing in, fingers spread, and I gave thanks.

Whether I felt strong and courageous or not, I would now have to be for my baby boy.

I love you so much, Sahra. You will do wonderful things. Have courage and believe in yourself.

Bibliotherapy is an inexpensive treatment not bound by time or place.

To speak of mystery in a Christian sense means that the human mind is finite and not fully able to understand, deduce or even contain the deep structures of God's reality.

I felt old. Again. It had been happening a lot lately. I did not live the life of an old lady, but I could hear it beckoning to me, like a mermaid on a rock."— Michelle Tea, "Paris: A

Nobody's problem is ideal. Nobody has things just as he would like them.

I finally realized the happy medium, 'honey blonde' was the correct color and line for me.

After I die, I shall return to earth as a gatekeeper of a bordello and I won't let any of you enter.

Oscar Wilde said that sunsets were not valued because we could not pay for sunsets. But Oscar Wilde was wrong; we can pay for sunsets. We can pay for them by not being Oscar Wilde.

Try to put your happiness before anyone else's, because you may never have done so in your entire life, if you really think about it, if you are really honest with yourself.

You will attract to yourself people who harmonize with your own philosophy of life, whether you wish it or not.

Oh fine. I'll play nice with the pretty people.