Every family has a story, and I love that those stories are etched in sand rather than granite. That way we can change them. We can bury the lies and embrace the truth. And we can move forward.

Sometimes it was hard to express how much you loved someone. You said the words, but you could never quite capture the depth of it. You could never quite hold someone tightly enough.

No matter how many people care about you, she thought, if you can't be open with them about who you truly are, you're still alone.

I'd been a terrific student. I hadn't wasted a moment of my time in school, and I knew plenty about healing the troubled mind. But no one had taught me a thing about healing the soul

Sometimes coloring outside the lines can cost you. Only you can figure out if it’s worth it.

You got dealt some crappy cards. But you're the one who has to decide how to play them.

And I knew I would nevr have that everything's-right-in-my-world feeling again.

It's just that I've learned that somebody's appearance doesn't always match what's going on inside him. You can't look at a guy's face and see his demons.

If you have a friend, a good friend, a woman you love, and you learn she’s done something abominable, do you stop loving her?

She felt happy these days, yet there was always an undercurrent of sadness just below the surface

You and me, " I said, "we both got the same kind of hurt inside us."She nodded, and suddenly, just like that, I knew I could trust her with my life.

No man's life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session.

Ke manapun kau pergi, Tuhan ada. Dia perhati setiap gerakan. Dia dengar setiap keluhan. Dia bantu setiap kesulitan. Walaupun kau tinggalkan dia.

Some things never changed.

. . . 'twill turn your eyeballs black and blue.

Famous is celebrityism, and I don't want that... I know that I'm not that. Everybody knows who you are. I can't imagine living that life, but I don't think I consider myself famous.

Everyone thinks I live alone, but I don't. My characters all live with me.

Chorus: Zeus, who guided men to think who laid it down that wisdom comes alone through suffering. Still there drips in sleep against the heart grief of memory; against our pleasure we are temperate.

No life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it for example by seeing it how it could be worse and then being grateful it isn't.

All extremes are error. The reverse of error is not truth, but error still. Truth lies between extremes.

Part of life is learning what to be ashamed of and what to be proud of.