What it's like to be a parent: It's one of the hardest things you'll ever do but in exchange it teaches you the meaning of unconditional love.

But love, I’ve come to understand, is more than three words mumbled before bedtime. Love is sustained by action, a pattern of devotion in the things we do for each other every day.

Experience had taught me that even the most precious memories fade with the passage of time.

Frugality, I've learned, has its own cost, one that sometimes lasts forever.

I came to the conclusion that unrealized hopes, even small ones, were always wrenching.

in all the years we spend together, I never once regretted the fact that I had chosen her and that she had chosen me as well.

I guess what I'm trying to say is that you are there, in everything I am, in everything I've ever done, and looking back, I know that I should have told you know much you've always meant to me.

Gifts of the heart can't be claimed by anyone except the giver.

Yet I have come to believe that while the past is unchangeable, our perceptions of is are malleable...

If you have the woman you love, what more do you need? Well, besides an alibi for the time of her husband’s murder.

Music is the soul food.

Opinions are a useless currency

Love, our subject: we've trained it like ivy to our walls.

You are not special. There is no plan for you. Nothing happens for a reason. Just try not to die and shut up.

I don't label myself one way or another. I love who I love; it's the person that matters.

I didn't want to be a boy, ever, but I was outraged that his height and intelligence were graces for him and gaucheries for me.

Being in TV is insane. The notes you get sometimes, I just don't understand them.

Nothing more unqualified the man to act with prudence than a misfortune that is attended with shame and guilt.

The British countryside is threatened by people and interests who really do not care for it