That's how life goes on - protected by the silence that anesthetizes shame.

Scars are just another kind of memory.

It is a luxury to do something that serves no practical purpose: the luxury of civilization.

From when she was a baby, Tom has taught the girl to respect, but not fear, the forces of nature- the lightning that might strike the light tower on Janus, the oceans that batter the island.

Your family's never in your past. You carry it around with you everywhere.

To make sense of it - that's the challenge. To bear witness to the death, without being broken by the weight of it.

Oh, but my treasure, it is so much less exhausting. You only have to forgive once. To resent, you have to do it all day, every day.

You have only to forgive once. To resent, you have to doit all day, every day. You have to keep remembering all the bad things" Frank to Hannah Roennfeldt

The only thing we can do is love that little girl as much as she deserves. And never, never hurt her!

What are you suggesting I do Ralph?’‘I’m suggesting you tell the bloody truth whatever it is. The only place lying leads is trouble.’“Sometimes that’s the only place telling the truth get you, too.

Stick to now. Put right the things you can put right today, and let the ones from back then go. Leave the rest to the angels, or the devil or whoever's in charge of it.

Stay true to yourself_Stay true to God!!!

The mouse that always trusts to one poor hole Can never be a mouse of any soul.

When I was growing up, there were two things that were unpopular in my house. One was me, and the other was my guitar.

The world is awakening to a powerful truth: Women and girls aren’t the problem; they’re the solution.

Wise men will apply their remedies to vices, not to names; to the causes of evil which are permanent, not the occasional organs by which they act, and the transitory modes in which they appear.

The Czech ease has become my saving grace for traveling! Plus,with its light weight and small size, I save thousands of dollars every year in airline fees.

Wealthier countries have the luxury of entertaining fears the rest of the world cannot afford.

A critic is a man who writes about things he doesn't like.

The Italians were eating with forks when the French were still eating each other.

Let's move forward and fix America's problems.