When I first met him, he was everything I wanted to be, but over time, he showed me how I wanted to be myself, and that was how I fell in love with him.

Sometimes we hurt the ones we love, but hurting ourselves to avoid it doesn’t make it better.

Fate was tricky like that. It consumed us when we thought we were free, and it freed us when we thought we were captured.

I can’t take back the past, but I can fight for the future.

His entire presence was like gravity, impossible to forget, possible to believe in, a theory merged into a law.

Watching them was like watching the sunset and the sunrise, equally beautiful in different ways.

I knew why love was always described with eternity. A single minute stretched out for lifetimes.

The rebel inside of me always ignored the rules.

Harmony would only come with destruction.

I remembered every moment between us, and every moment felt more precious as time passed.

To surround anything, however monstrous or ridiculous, with an air of mystery, is to invest it with a secret charm, and power of attraction which to the crowd is irresistible.

Jesus is the hope of the world and the local church is the vehicle of expressing that hope to the world.

Vegetables are called 'specialty crops.' Don't ask me why.

I hate my life. I'm at the point where I want to hear about other people's lives. it's like switching from fiction to biography.

I've always been a feminist, and what I love in my work is being able to explore a full-sided woman and not patronize her.

As a mom, I know that raising children is the hardest job there is.

A remarkable feature of the humanitarian movement, on both its sentimental and utilitarian sides, has been its preoccupation with the lot of the masses.

A cigarette in the hands of a Hollywood star onscreen is a gun aimed at a 12- or 14-year-old.

Science is the art of the solvable.

Without gratitude and appreciation for what you already have, you’ll never know true fulfillment.