Suffering so someone else didn't have to suffer. Sacrificing your body for someone else's well being.

You figured that the only way I'd be happy is if I did the things you thought would be best for me.

I realized it was like looking into the sun—you shouldn't do it, because you'd turn your face away and be blind to everything else.

They don't like the thought of someone else making demands on the person whom they see as belonging entirely to them.

males conspicuously leaving their mark to let others know where they weren't welcome.

because in the past words have only driven them apart.

In the past, even Alex's promises hadn't prevented a reoccurence. She didn't have a choice. She wished he could see that as clearly as she did.

It still hurts, " she whispered. "Even when you're doing it for someone else, that doesn't stop your ribs from getting cracked, or your wrist swelling, or your cuts from bleeding.

There's a problem with wounded birds, Cassie, " Connor said. "Either they fly away from you one day, or else they never get better. They stay hurt no matter what you do.

The only thing they'll let you shoot with a camera.

I've heard that the soul often recognizes truth when it hears it, even if the mind does not.

Success is built on hard work, the right hard work itself is success.

Perfect love has a breath of poetry which can exalt the relations of the least-instructed human beings.

Being different is the only way to live

At 11, I could say ‘I am sodium’ (Element 11), and now at 79, I am gold.

Do more than is required. What is the distance between someone who achieves their goals consistently and those who spend their lives and careers merely following? The extra mile.

I told personal stories the way [Bill] Cosby would spin a yarn for ten minutes. I think in hindsight it works better as a long story than as a condensed monologue.

Never quit. My book, Chicken Soup for the Soul, was turned down by 33 publishers. It's since sold millions of copies.

Sand. Everywhere. In the bed, in the shower, all over the floor. Grrrrr.

An island Utopia in a modern, busy, everyday world. A land where there are neither rich nor poor. A heaven on earth - without a fence around it.