For survivors, the word closure often connotes that the bereaved are underachievers who flunked a grief course.

Grief is not a disorder, a disease or sign of weakness. It is an emotional, physical and spiritual necessity, the price you pay for love. The only cure for grief is to grieve.

Each person's grief journey is unique as a fingerprint or a snowflake.

Grief is love not wanting to let go.

Courage is not the absence of fear and pain, but the affirmation of life despite fear and pain.

i am a museum full of artbut you had your eyes shut

We need better things, not more. We should not pollute the world with meaningless, unused things when we can make and support things of rare and precious beauty.

If there was no praise or criticism in the world, then who would you be?

My first priority is to finish above rather than beneath the ground.

I think we're all hooked, I feel my own hook-ness on immediate gratification you know. I want what I want.

It was in the year 1820, when I was nearly nine years old, that I first went to a regular school.

I am for the ones who represent sense, and so was Jane Austen.

I choose to live in what I think is the greatest country in the world, which is committing horrendous terrorist acts and should stop.

We are all facing the end one day or another. I say, live a good and prosperous life, make sure your choices count, make them count.

Even a blind squirrel finds an acorn now and again.