She used to tell me that she couldn't feel the sunlight anymore, not even when she was standing in it, not even when it was hot on her cheeks

I am such a Pacific Northwest girl.

Finding your passion isn't just about careers and money. It's about finding your authentic self. The one you've buried beneath other people's needs.

Maybe time didn't heal wounds exactly, but it gave you a kind of armor, or a new perspective. A way to remember with a smile instead of a sob.

And no one drank just one shot of tequila.

And maybe that was how it was supposed to be...Joy and sadness were part of the package; the trick, perhaps,was to let yourself feel all of it, but to hold on to the joy just a little more tightly.

A daughter without her mother is a woman broken. It is a loss that turns to arthritis and settles deep into her bones.

Memories are who we are. In the end, that's all the luggage you take with you. Love and Memories are what last.

That was what a best friend did: hold up a mirror and show you your heart.

What I know now about life is this: your mother is a part of everything you do and everything you are.

From the first time we met, we knew everything that mattered about each other, didn't we? We just knew. I guess that's what best friends are: parts of each other.

My words express my feelings but not more than my heart.

It is often easier to ask for forgiveness than to ask for permission.

He is happy as well as great who needs neither to obey nor to command in order to be something.

Obviously, you have to be lucky enough for people to want you to be in films, but that is the plan, definitely.

In that moment of salvation, of belief, they are opening their lives to the person of Jesus.

God is a hypothesis, and, as such, stands in need of proof; the onus probandi rests on the theist.

Meditation helps everything.

The Devil invented gambling.

No action will be considered blameless, unless the will was so, for by the will the act was dictated.

Anger is like A full hot horse, who being allowed his way, Self-mettle tires him.