There are two ways to be happy: improve your reality, or lower your expectations.

If you gave someone your heart and they died, did they take it with them? Did you spend the rest of forever with a hole inside you that couldn't be filled?

Part of growing up was learning not to be quite that honest - learning when it was better to lie, rather than to hurt someone with the truth.

When you begin a journey of revenge, start by digging two graves: one for your enemy, and one for yourself.

If we don't change the direction we are headed, we will end up where we are going.

Love [is] supposed to move mountains, to make the world go round, to be all you need, but it [falls] apart at the deatils. It [can't] save a single person.

As Lacy waited for her turn to speak on Peter's behalf, she thought back to the first time she realized she could hate her own child.

if there isn’t a them, there can’t be an us.

A mathematical formula for happiness:Reality divided by Expectations.There were two ways to be happy:improve your reality or lower your expectations.

There were two ways to be happy: improve your reality, or lower your expectations

Wenn jemand starb, dem du dein Herz geschenkt hattest, nahm er es dann mit?

Neither pathway is correct.

There is a magic in distance. Look back at the golden lamp-lit rooms of your home from the road of your life, and it all for a moment is exactly how you hoped it would be: warm, peaceful, safe.

When a person comes to know God, the Spirit of God revives his spirit and his essence.

That's how it started: a series of small hurts and excuses between two people that built up slowly, widening over time to form a vast and yawning divide.

It has been my experience that if we make the effort to listen to people when we meet them, and work to get to know them a little, it is then easy to find something likeable in practically anyone.

A religion that never suffices to govern a man will never suffice to save him; that which does not sufficiently distinguish one from a wicked world will never distinguish him from a perishing world.

There is no justice. There are occasional acts of vengeance, or regret, but there's no real justice. In the natural scheme of things, it is not possible.

In the 21st century nations don't invade other nations.

I'd like to date another millionaire. I've never done that.

I am always astonishing myself. It is the only thing that makes life worth living.