Your tears do not wash away your sorrows. They feed someone else's joy. And that is why you must learn to swallow your own tears.

Fate is shaped half by expectation, half by inattention.

Only you pick that crab. Nobody else take it. I already know this. Everyone else want best quality. You thinking different.

Then you must teach my daughter this same lesson. How to lose your innocence but not your hope. How to laugh forever.

A psychiatrist does not want you to wake up. He tells you to dream some more, to find the pond and pour more tears into it. And really, he's just another bird drinking from your misery.

That is the way it is with a wound. The wound begins to close in on itself, to protect what is hurting so much. And once it is closed, you no longer see what is underneath, what started the pain.

When a husband stops paying attention to the garden, he's thinking of pulling up roots.

You can't stay in the dark for too long. Something inside you starts to fade, and you become like a starving person, crazy-hungry for light.

But you can't stay in the dark for so long. Something inside of you starts to fade and you become like a starving person, crazy-hungry for light.

Auntie Yang is not hard of hearing. She is hard of listening.

Everybody has good and bad forces working with them, against them, and within them.

We cannot really look at the movement of the Spirit, just because It is the Power by which we do the looking.

During the year I stood there I had known was the loss of my heart. While I was in love I was the happiest man on earth.

It's really important that my lyrics are truthful.

Very often, you know, you stop walking because you say, 'Well, I'm tired of climbing this hill. I'm never going to get to the top.' And you're only two steps from the top.

I'm the kind of father I wanted my father to be. That may be the sweetest revenge.

Places I love come back to me like music, / Hush me and heal me when I am very tired.

Genuine relationships depend first on a healthy relationship with ourselves.

Sin is in itself separation from the good, but despair over sin is separation a second time.

So, my friends, in a week or so the Governor-General will swear in a new government.