When you look into your mother’s eyes, you know that is the purest love you can find on this earth.

When someone is in your heart, they're never truly gone. They can come back to you, even at unlikely times.

It's such a shame to waste time. We always think we have so much of it.

One day spent with someone you love can change everything.

But she wasn’t around, and that’s the thing when your parents die, you feel like instead of going in to every fight with backup, you are going into every fight alone.

You can find something truly important in an ordinary minute.

Sharing tales of those we've lost is how we keep from really losing them.

I thought about the days i had handed over to a bottle..the nights i can't remember..the mornings i slept thru..all the time spent running from myself.

I think what you notice most when you haven’t been home in a while is how much the trees have grown around your memories.

Once heaven is done with grandma, we'd like her back, thanks.

Belief, hard work, love–you have those things, you can do anything.

Beyonce has set the tone as an aunt. I've set the tone as a mom.

The place of my novels is Israel, almost without exception. All of them take place in Israel - in Jerusalem, in the desert, in the kibbutz, in small towns, in villages.

My earliest influences were things I heard in my household.

We say to others only what we need to hear

Along the Paris streets, the death-carts rumble, hollow and harsh. Six tumbrils carry the day's wine to La Guillotine.

Enlightenment is the culmination of self-knowledge, pure unadulterated knowledge. Not knowledge you can get from reading a book, it comes from perfecting your awareness, your mind.

Impeach President Reagan retroactively for agreeing with Obama on the assault weapons ban.

Humankind is never what he is but the self he seeks.

He who asks with timidity invites a refusal.

A lot of people expect to see the same type of character that they see on the field off the field, and that throws them for a loop.