Humility and shame have been confused. Humility is knowing that you know nothing for sure and shame is someone having to tell you.

Never mourn the loss of innocence, because it always brings the much greater gain of wisdom.

I am forever grateful for not knowing—What would have been. WHAT WILL BE holds none of those bittersweet pangs and it is lit w joy.

Emotions are like muscles. Most of them go highly unattended, it's usually the weaker, undefined ones that cause injury to the rest, and there is most certainly memory response in play.

The heart of a person only beats when it's surrounded by blood, by family.

If your blade were as sharp as your tongue, you'd have sliced my through years ago.

Just give me a thousand words and you may make your own pictures.

Unfortunately we treat others as we treat ourselves. We should try being genuinely kind to ourselves and the rest will come naturally, like a Platinum Rule.

My cup was already brimming before I met him —after it runneth over.

If your blade were as sharp as your tongue, you'd have sliced me through years ago.

My acupuncturist once told me that it doesn't have to hurt to work. She might have meant the needles, but I think she really meant love.

The only way to practicalize your love for God is by helping and loving others

Slavery was never abolished.It was just renamed.

If You Think that Everyone Swindles You, You are a Selfish Person

The greatest trap in our life is not success, popularity or power, but self-rejection.

My parents put skates on me at age 2, the way it should be if you're serious, and I've always liked it.

To interpret, to quote – yet only to have witnesses, also friends.

I grew up always knowing what I wanted to do, and I'm starting to see how rare that is. All of my friends are just figuring it out. It's a process of elimination until you find what you love.

Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.

The life of a good man is at the same time the most eloquent lesson of virtue and the most severe reproof of vice.

There is not built-in meaning to anything, we are free to add any meaning we choose to give it.