When you're rotten about yourself, you become rotten to everyone else, even those you love.

Love is how you stay alive, even after you are gone.

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

Accept who you are; and revel in it.

Death ends a life, not a relationship.

This is part of what a family is about, not just love. It's knowing that your family will be there watching out for you. Nothing else will give you that. Not money. Not fame. Not work.

We all yearn for what we have lost. But sometimes, we forget what we have.

The truth is, once you learn how to die, you learn how to live.

Do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself.

Nothing haunts us like the things we don't say.

Don't cling to things because everything is impermanent.

Life always begins with triumph but tends to end with tragedy.

You will be perpetually unhappy if you continue to refuse to walk in your calling.

...it always felt good to have that moment of resolve, like saying, "I'm gonna learn French!" It doesn't matter if you do it or not, deciding is the high, right?

I loved you even when you forgot me.And—for a little while—you loved me back.

The first stage of any development is infancy.

Anything that the private sector can do, the government can do it worse.

Boredom soon overcomes me when I am contemplating nature.

It is white. - when asked what the White house was like by a student in East London

I was not designed to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest.

Walking with Murphy through the bone-freezing chill toward the bus stop, I start shivering. And somehow, when he slips his arm around me to warm me up, it feels right. Righter than anything ever has.