You [meaning mothers] said good-bye a little every day -- from the minute they left your body until they left your home.

When you love someone, it doesn't really matter if they love you back or not. Having love in your heart for someone is its own reward. or punishment, depending on the circumstances.

The Universe doesn't like secrets. It conspires to reveal the truth, to lead you to it.

Many people believe that evil is the presence of something. I think it's the absence of something.

I think that's the moment when we all grow up, when we stop blaming our parents for the messes we've made out of our lives and start owning the consequences of our actions.

You can cut the ties that bind but not without losing a part of yourself. You can walk away and hide from the people who made you, but you'll always hear them calling your name.

The universe conspires to reveal the truth and to make your path easy if you have the courage to follow the signs.

We can't hold on to anyone or anything, you know. We lose everything except that which we carry within us.

It's strange how memory gets twisted and pulled like taffy in its retelling, how a single event can mean something different to everyone present.

The past is history. The future is a mystery. The present is a gift.

Hope is good. Without it, well, you do the math. But hope has to be like a prayer. Putting it out there to something more powerful than yourself.

Maybe God created the desert so that man could appreciate the date trees

The sea waves stirred before methey dashed against the rocksLike a mermaid rising from its depthscurled white sea foam were her locks...

Don't eat too much, and never forget to love too much.

A chariot cannot travel in two directions.

Leadership is the key to 99 percent of all successful efforts.

To love my neighbor is to assist the arising and unfolding in him of that which can harmonize the real elements of his nature.

Make someone happy, Make just one someone happy, And you will be happy, too.

Conscience gets expensive, doesn't it?

There are many people out there who don't even think of themselves as being averse to facts, but the truth is, they are not getting it.

As a writer, I'm not convinced that we are the best equipped to understand how we go about the business of literary production.