The purpose of any healthy relationship is to find someone that will magnify your life's experiences, not tolerate it or become a spectator of it.

He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.

If you spend your time hoping someone will suffer the consequences for what they did to your heart, then you're allowing them to hurt you a second time in your mind.

There comes a time in your life when you have to choose to turn the page, write another book or simply close it.

A true gentleman is one that apologizes anyways, even though he has not offended a lady intentionally. He is in a class all of his own because he knows the value of a woman's heart.

A best friend is the only one that walks into your life when the world has walked out.

The most confused you will ever get is when you try to convince your heart and spirit of something your mind knows is a lie.

When you loved someone and had to let them go, there will always be that small part of yourself that whispers, "What was it that you wanted and why didn't you fight for it?

The most introspective of souls are often those that have been hurt the most.

When someone you love says goodbye you can stare long and hard at the door they closed and forget to see all the doors God has open in front of you.

If he can't handle you at your worst then he does not deserve you at your best. Real love means seeing beyond the words spoken out of pain, and instead seeing a person's soul.

The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance. The wise grows it under his feet.

Anyway, all these computers and digital gadgets are no good. They just fill your head with numbers and that can't be good for you.

The doctor has been taught to be interested not in health but in disease. What the public is taught is that health is the cure for disease.

Children need close friends to help them grow up, to discover things about themselves and about life. They also need close friends to keep them sane

The charges [government] brought against me, for example, explicitly denied my ability to make a public-interest defense.

Don't be prideful with any excellence that is not your own

My manager is definitely a mentor as well as Usher.

I woke up one day to the fact that the earth's surface was made for living plants, not industrial plants.

Blake smiled radiantly. ʺMay I call you Vasilisa?ʺ ʺYou can call me Lissa.ʺ ʺYou can also,ʺ added Christian, ʺlet go of her hand now.

There is a vast difference between taking a picture and making a photograph.