What was I to you?" he asked. She didn't answer but turned and walked away. That's when he knew: Nothing or everything.

Truth and integrity must be so rare these days that it confuses people when they hear it.

There is the purity of love, harmonious in every way, but not meant for a lifetime, and then there is the steady love of commitment - no less real but completely different. She had both.

Darling, if I take your breath away, I will give you mine.

We love because we can lose. If there was no threat of separation, no death to shake us to our core, we probably wouldn't love much at all.

Connecting with someone is not necessarily a bond with a significant other, or even a friend, but can be the indefinable - perhaps the rarest and most precious thing in life to find at all.

Even "meant to be" takes work.

I'd rather be befriended as an aimless lost soul than be befriended for adornment, gain or goal.

Am I a friend or a prospect? Imagine how much kinder life would be if people put as much effort into befriending others instead of trying to sell them something.

Where are the memories that held us together? Where are the dreams that were yet to come? I'm afraid to be happy. I shouldn't be happy. If I'm happy without you does that mean I've told you goodbye?

One of the disadvantages to having a choice is the inevitability to hang oneself on freedoms rope.

The customs are as formalised as an eighteenth-century minuet, and a child at the race's knee learns the moves and twirls by osmosis and observation.

All the nations that make up the world are burdened down with riches or poverty, obesity or malnutrition, success or failure.

The central mechanism of the avoidance mechanism of PTSD is the ego defense of denial

No matter what side of the law you are on, when it comes to revenge, there is no mercy.

A friend is as it were a second self.

If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it.

It's weird to be very good at something and not necessarily to want to do it.

Holy persons draw to themselves all that is earthly.

I believe teenagers are God's revenge on mankind. It's like He said, 'Hey let's see how they like it to create something in their own image that denies their existence.'

There are as many different religions as there are individuals.