Self respect, Colie. If you don't have it, the world will walk all over you.

Don't think or judge, just listen.

There comes a time when the world gets quiet and the only thing left is your own heart. So you'd better learn the sound of it. Otherwise you'll never understand what it's saying.

Your actions is like a raindrop; it falls into the pond making ripples and then its over.

It's a lot easier to be lost than found. It's the reason we're always searching and rarely discovered--so many locks not enough keys.

Looking at the pond, all I could think was that it is an incredivle thing, how a whole world can rise from what seems like nothing at all.

If you didn't love him, this never would have happened. But you did. And accepting that love and everything that followed it is part of letting it go.

You should never be surprised when someone treats you with respect, you should expect it.

Sometimes a question can hurt more than an answer.

Being brave and self-confident doesn't necessarily start inside...It starts with the rest of the world, and it leads back to you.

There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment.

Samuel Johnson said a second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience, ” Kirkland said.

Life, it seems, is nothing if not a series of initiations, transitions, and incorporations.

All healthy men have thought of their own suicide

If you have the right mind, your body can do anything.

Ballet is good, because it makes you stand up tall.

Tough times helped many commodities traders become lean and mean through consolidation, mergers and cost cutting. All that excess supply has been sopped up.

Life is a problem; mortal man was made to solve the solemn problem right or wrong.

He who is mistaken in an action which he sincerely believes to be right may be an enemy, but retains our esteem.

She died praying that she might die.

It is a virtual reflex for governments to plead security concerns when they undertake any controversial action, often as a pretext for something else.