This is the forked tongue of grief again. It whispers in one ear: return to what you once loved best, and in the other ear it whispers, move on.

So when I say that I am a refugee, you must understand that there is no refuge.

A scar is never ugly. That is what the scar makers want us to think. A scar does not form on the dying. A scar means, I survived.

Looking after a very sick child was the Olympics of parenting.

A scar does not form on the dying. A scar means, I survived.

At some point you just have to turn around and face your life head on.

Our own personal brand of courage - in relationships, in conflict, in our principles ­ - is as unique as our fingerprints.

I’m telling you, trouble is like the ocean. It covers two thirds of the world.

I could not stop talking because now I had started my story, it wanted to be finished. We cannot choose where to start and stop. Our stories are the tellers of us.

We must see all scars as beauty. Okay? This will be our secret. Because take it from me, a scar does not form on the dying. A scar means, 'I survived'.

It is certainly impossible to imagine forgiving the enemy while their animus remains undefeated.

Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.

the siren song/called silence

To live with a mind full of grudges and jealousy, is to bargain to be constantly punished by negative feelings and emotions.

What makes sense is not law, syntax, rules or structure

For even the very wise cannot see all ends.

What is this life but the sound of an appalling love.

It is not true that good can follow only from good and evil only from evil, but that often the opposite is true.

Content, it dreams awake, and spins the fabric of tales. There is really nothing to be done with such imagery except to use it: in writing, in art.

So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat.

Don't get any big ideas They're not gonna happen.