Sometimes you're sure dogs have some secret, superior intelligence, and other times you know they're only their simple, goofy selves.

You've got to say what you mean and mean what you say...Doubt in your voice is an open door people will shove right through.

If letting go, if letting people and things work themselves out in the way that they needed to without your help was the most important thing, then it was also the hardest.

You can want one thing and have a secret wish for its opposite.

I shouldn't have to be a liar to make someone love me. I shouldn't be so afraid of losing someone that I'll do anything to make them stay.

I've wished for things and never really had the chance...It's time to stop dreaming and do something about it. You've got to know what you want, then...go.

You can hold a secret, hold it so far in that it drives nearly every thought and every move you make- your very heartbeat, almost.

Most of our parents wanted the best for us, I knew, but we also wanted the best for them.

If happiness shouldn't make you so miserable, misery shouldn't make you so happy.

When someone makes you a priority it is Great! When you make yourself a priority it is Brilliant!~

Sometimes the best way to find what you really desire in life is to stop looking for it.

In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme. --Aristotle

I know you're scared, but doing something even though it scares you is the definition of brave.

When we hate our enemies, we are giving them power over us: power over our sleep, our appetites, our blood pressure, our health, and our happiness.

Beware of a man with manners.

It is just as painful to me when I do poorly. If the fault is all mine, that's what's painful. If it's a situation where no one could have succeeded, I don't feel as bad.

I had always thought that the idea of love at first sight was one of those things invented by lady novelists from the South with three names.

what is life worth if one has nothing to give away? This lack, it seems to me, must be the sharpest pang of poverty.

Not for no cold did freeze, Nor any cloud beguile Th'eternal flowering spring