When we see others cry it is difficult, not because of feeling their pain, but your own.

I may not always like at times, but life is a beautiful blend of joy, tragedy and dreams. If not for one, I could not have the other.

All of the years I spent trying to be someone you could be proud of would have been better spent being proud of myself for who I already was.

Life became more aligned when I started taking some of the advice I'd been dishing out to my friends.

Don't forget to pause and nourish yourself a bit along the way. When you're born to help others sometimes you forget to help yourself.

You can't sweep something broken into a bag and call it whole. It takes repair.

I call my it "the Book of Paula" or BoP for short. Those are my own opinions, based on experience.

And my heart is breakingMy heart is lying on the floor in a pool of tearsI keep asking the same questions only to have them unanswered

I don't know the perfect thing to say when a person is hurting but I do know the last thing they want to hear are reasons they shouldn't be hurting.

Hurting the person who hurt you won't heal your pain. Let them go. Karma will deal with them you don't have to write the script for the universe.

The burden of my anxiety is not my child's.

Do not envy the success of any person. But set your goal on a successful guy. Then this will make you succeed.

He'd shot and beaten people because he couldn't talk to them.Violence was the only language nobody could understand. There were no translators.

Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.

I am more and more convinced that music is not, in essence, a thing which can be cast into a traditional and fixed form. It is made up of colors and rhythms.

It's harder for me, never having brought up a child, to enter the universe of the child.

High in the heavens I saw the moon this morning, Albeit the sun shone bright; Unto my soul it spoke, in voice of warning, "Remember Night!"

Correction does much, but encouragement does more. Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.

...this marvelous graceful thing, this joy of physics, this perfect balance between rebellion and obedience, is God's own signature on earth.

I had me jaw broken, and so my chin stuck way out. That's how I became tough - I learned to pick up anything and fight back.

When you stop putting yourself on the line, and you don't touch your own heart, how do you expect to touch other people?