To help create positive change in others, you must first find the catalyst for positive change in yourself, " Mary Miller, Changing Direction: Ten Choices That Impact Your Dreams (Chapter 1).

I didn't know how I could want things so badly while making it impossible to ever get them.

You humans always try to make things too simple, except when you’re trying to make things too complicated. You can never just be with what is.

I equal parts loved him and could not stand him. I couldn't wake him to share in my distress.

At the end of the day, I'm Violet's mom, and I want the best for her.

Only God and some few rare geniuses can keep forging ahead into novelty.

I rarely eat red meat and only occasionally eat fish. Plant based foods are my main source of nutrition along with nuts, fruits, brown breads and grains.

I always try to make my things happen.

I cannot remember a time when I did not want to go to Africa to study animals.

That kiss was really nice you know before you...bit me, but it was still nice.

Such tenderness, those afternoons and evenings, saying blackberry, blackberry, blackberry.

But a haiku by Buson came into his mind: 'I try to forget this senile love; a chilly autumn shower.' The gloom only grew denser.