Don't beg a man to keep you. If he isn't sure you are the right one make the decision for yourself. You deserve better than maybe.

I may not always like at times, but life is a beautiful blend of joy, tragedy and dreams. If not for one, I could not have the other.

All of the years I spent trying to be someone you could be proud of would have been better spent being proud of myself for who I already was.

Life became more aligned when I started taking some of the advice I'd been dishing out to my friends.

Don't forget to pause and nourish yourself a bit along the way. When you're born to help others sometimes you forget to help yourself.

You can't sweep something broken into a bag and call it whole. It takes repair.

I call my it "the Book of Paula" or BoP for short. Those are my own opinions, based on experience.

And my heart is breakingMy heart is lying on the floor in a pool of tearsI keep asking the same questions only to have them unanswered

I don't know the perfect thing to say when a person is hurting but I do know the last thing they want to hear are reasons they shouldn't be hurting.

Hurting the person who hurt you won't heal your pain. Let them go. Karma will deal with them you don't have to write the script for the universe.

The burden of my anxiety is not my child's.

ALL that man has touched, will be used... For both Good and evil. Such is the way of the world.

Nothing is more satisfying than to write a good sentence.

If I have a swing, I have a shot.

When other sects speak well of Zen, the first thing that they praise is its poverty.

I have been very clear about the necessity for doing whatever is required to move the VA into the 21st century.

In families there is always the mythology. My father died when my kids were quite young still, and yet they still tell his stories. That is how a person lives on.

I've never thought about it before, but I suppose bad people might need someone to pray to, too.

Life does not give itself to one who tries to keep all its advantages at once. I have often thought morality may perhaps consist solely in the courage of making a choice.

I do mind some of the intrusions on privacy.

Spider-Man is such a whiny loser.