She has been hanging on to the hope of him for so long that she doesn't realize there isn't anything left to hope for.

Remember that at any given moment there are a thousand things you can love.

Life tells you to take the elevator, but love tells you to take the stairs.

Kindness connects to who you are, while niceness connects to how you want to be seen.

The older I get, the more I lose my ability to breathe.

A photograph it a souvenir of a memory. It is not a moment. It is the looking at the photograph that becomes the moment. Your own moment.

The words that matter always stay.

motif, n. You don’t love me as much as I love you. You don’t love me as much as I love you. You don’t love me as much as I love you.

It was a mistake," you said. But the cruel thing was, it felt like the mistake was mine, for trusting you.

You have to believe there are kisses and laughs and risks worth taking.

Things that matter are not easy. Feelings of happiness are easy. Happiness is not. Flirting is easy. Love is not. Saying you’re friends is easy. Being friends is not.

It’s not that I don’t like it, it’s just…” His eyes dropped from hers again, almost as if-?

You may have some scars from the past but this will fade away in time.

No Blame: The most liberating and empowering day of my life was the day I freed myself from my own self-destructive nonsense.

Humanity I love you because when you're hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink.

I owned a 1972 Plymouth Valiant that we bought for $125. It was infested with cockroaches and geckos - it was its own little ecosystem.

If Mandela were a comedian, I bet he would never get mad at a heckler, he'd give him or her a hug.

Prayer is the center of the Christian life. It is the only necessary thing. It is living with God, here and now.

I'm a writer first and an editor second... or maybe third or even fourth. Successful editing requires a very specific set of skills, and I don't claim to have all of them at my command.

I'm not arrogant enough to look back on my career and criticize my choices. It's really not my place.

There are things that bother me. I try not to let them, but they do.