if there isn’t a them, there can’t be an us.

There are two ways to be happy: improve your reality, or lower your expectations.

If you gave someone your heart and they died, did they take it with them? Did you spend the rest of forever with a hole inside you that couldn't be filled?

Part of growing up was learning not to be quite that honest - learning when it was better to lie, rather than to hurt someone with the truth.

When you begin a journey of revenge, start by digging two graves: one for your enemy, and one for yourself.

If we don't change the direction we are headed, we will end up where we are going.

Love [is] supposed to move mountains, to make the world go round, to be all you need, but it [falls] apart at the deatils. It [can't] save a single person.

As Lacy waited for her turn to speak on Peter's behalf, she thought back to the first time she realized she could hate her own child.

A mathematical formula for happiness:Reality divided by Expectations.There were two ways to be happy:improve your reality or lower your expectations.

There were two ways to be happy: improve your reality, or lower your expectations

Wenn jemand starb, dem du dein Herz geschenkt hattest, nahm er es dann mit?

Life is a race, and what matters most isn't when a person crosses the finish line, but how strong they've grown along the way.

Now one day, maybe I can forgive John Andersen for what he done to these trees, but I ain't gonna forget it. I figure forgiving is not letting something nag at you—rotting you out.

Now at first you’ll feel a little dizzy, then a little numb, then you won’t feel anything at all.

Pain is not wrong. Reacting to pain as wrong initiates the trance of unworthiness. The moment we believe something is wrong, our world shrinks and we lose ourselves in the effort to combat the pain.

Impartiality is to accept that we are partial.

The first-born in every family is always dreaming for an imaginary older brother or sister who will look out for them.

God told me if I painted that mountain enough, I could have it.

The successful publishing house is the one that can guess ahead, not the one that imitates the past.

We love the blather and boast, the charge and counter-charge of campaigning. Governing is a tougher deal.

You do not get more with honey than with vinegar!