That was the very heart of friendship...your willingness to help each other in a jam, to take a friend's problems as your very own.

My dad always says, some people will treat you badly and you can't help that. But how you handle it and how it makes you feel, that's up to you.

My mom says that when it rains you never feel like you should be anywhere but home.

But really, there are no coincidences. Coincidences are just other people's choices, plans you don't know about.

A person's birthday should be a special day, a wonderful day, a day of pure celebration for the luck of being born!

There is a difference between giving into something and accepting it.

The most important things in a friendship didn't have to be said out loud.

Writing:It starts at the keyboard, and it ends at the far corners of the universe. --Paako

No matter how hard you fight the darkness, every light casts a shadow, and the closer you get to the light, the darker that shadow becomes.

Politicians tend only to like democracy when it is to their personal advantage(From LONE WOLF, p.50)

The same thinking that has led you to where you are is not going to lead you to where you want to go.

To master fear is the most important battle to win.

If you laugh, think, and cry; that's a full day.

Do not follow the ideas of others, but learn to listen to the voice within yourself. Your body and mind will become clear and you will realize the unity of all things.

All my life I have fought against prejudice and intolerance.

I made the unexpected but happy discovery that the answer to several of the questions that most occupied me was in fact one and the same: Cook.

My dad also plays a little banjo and guitar, my mom plays the mandolin.