We are fragile beings, yet we often act as though we couldn't be hurt, and as though we couldn't hurt other people.

It is our wounds that create in us a desire to reach for miracles. The fulfillment of such miracles depends on whether we let our wounds pull us down or lift us up towards our dreams.

Let go of what you can no longer keep. Protect what's still worth keeping. Believe in love most of all.

There will always be a pain in 'goodbyes'. No matter how much we seem to understand everything, it breaks our hearts to ever see anything beautiful die.

Wasted laughter. Wasted tears. Wasted love. That's how badly you felt. And yet, is love ever truly wasted?

Saying goodbye doesn't mean you need to forget, It doesn't mean you were never loved.It doesn't mean you're weak, It doesn't mean you didn't try hard enough.

God's breath is like a fresh wind that renews us. Frail and weak as we are, we have hope. We find healing.

To love is to risk, and to risk is to lose sometimes, to get hurt. But let it not deter you from loving again, from being happy.

We hurt so much because we have lost a part of ourselves. If we have loved much, we must have given much also, and when everything's over, we feel as though we have lost everything.

Courage is the integrating strength that causes one to overcome tragedy.

The best translations cannot convey to us the strength and exquisite delicacy of thought in its native garb, and he to whom such books are shut flounders about in outer darkness.

In countries where there is a mild climate, less effort is expended on the struggle with nature and man is kinder and more gentle.

I have a responsibility to nurture and shepherd my talent and when I'm living the parts of my life not related to that I feel I have the right to be left alone.

Men and women have roles - their roles are different, but their rights are equal.

There's a perception that's been put out into the marketplace by No Child Left Behind that schools aren't doing enough for kids.

You can't live a lie. You have to follow your heart.

I love order. It's my dream. A world where all would be silent and still, and each thing in its last place, under the last dust.

Pants get shiny even on a throne.

In Ramadan, you should eat less and think more.