i wish i were someone else, even though i know i'll never, ever be able to get away from what i've done and what's been done to me.

Remember that at any given moment there are a thousand things you can love.

Life tells you to take the elevator, but love tells you to take the stairs.

Kindness connects to who you are, while niceness connects to how you want to be seen.

The older I get, the more I lose my ability to breathe.

A photograph it a souvenir of a memory. It is not a moment. It is the looking at the photograph that becomes the moment. Your own moment.

The words that matter always stay.

motif, n. You don’t love me as much as I love you. You don’t love me as much as I love you. You don’t love me as much as I love you.

It was a mistake," you said. But the cruel thing was, it felt like the mistake was mine, for trusting you.

You have to believe there are kisses and laughs and risks worth taking.

Things that matter are not easy. Feelings of happiness are easy. Happiness is not. Flirting is easy. Love is not. Saying you’re friends is easy. Being friends is not.

Spirit of spirits!

Instead of looking at what's depressing, look at what's a blessing.

In my view, the lost art of listening and ignoring the patient as a human being is a quintessential failure of our health care.

Life is too deep for words, so don't try to describe it, just live it.

Money cannot fill an empty soul.

The spiritual quality of earth: eternally pregnant and containing in its fertility the unwritten cipher of cosmic lore.

I believe tattoos are a lifestyle not a fashion trend.

The chief factor in any man's success or failure must be his own character.

Why, headstrong liberty is lashed with woe. There's nothing situate under heaven's eye But hath his bound, in earth, in sea, in sky.

Alleviation of suffering is my fundamental principle.