Closing your eyes isn't going to change anything. Nothing's going to disappear just because you can't see what's going on. In fact, things will even be worse the next time you open your eyes.

When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.

If you remember me, then I don't care if everyone else forgets.

Every one of us is losing something precious to us. Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back again. That’s part of what it means to be alive.

Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.

No matter how much time passes, no matter what takes place in the interim, there are some things we can never assign to oblivion, memories we can never rub away.

In dreams begins responsiblities.

The journey I'm taking is inside me. Just like blood travels down veins, what I'm seeing is my inner self and what seems threatening is just the echo of the fear in my heart.

Even chance meetings are the result of karma… Things in life are fated by our previous lives. That even in the smallest events there’s no such thing as coincidence.

It's easy to forget things you don't need anymore.

If you think God’s there, He is. If you don’t, He isn’t. And if that’s what God’s like, I wouldn’t worry about it.

What all good teachers have in common, however, is that they set high standards for their students and do not settle for anything less.

And maps can really point to placesWhere life is evil now:Nanking. Dachau.

Paint your life and sketch your way

Lies from the closest to you are often the most numerous and paralyzing.

We wondered why when a child laughed, he belonged to Daddy, and when he had a sagging diaper that smelled like a landfill, 'He wants his mother.'

Everyone wants a hug and kiss. It translates into any language.

I carry one black mascara and one brown.

Christ designed that the day of his coming should be hid from us, that being in suspense, we might be as it were upon the watch.

Originally, in the early eighties, the drug hypothesis was among the first which occurred to scientists.

You can't tell stories and really walk in someone's shoes and not have a love for them, even if they're doing horrible things.