I appreciate the beauty and balm of flowers but I have never enjoyed receiving them because then I have to watch them die, and worse...throw them away.

Truth and integrity must be so rare these days that it confuses people when they hear it.

There is the purity of love, harmonious in every way, but not meant for a lifetime, and then there is the steady love of commitment - no less real but completely different. She had both.

Darling, if I take your breath away, I will give you mine.

We love because we can lose. If there was no threat of separation, no death to shake us to our core, we probably wouldn't love much at all.

Connecting with someone is not necessarily a bond with a significant other, or even a friend, but can be the indefinable - perhaps the rarest and most precious thing in life to find at all.

Even "meant to be" takes work.

I'd rather be befriended as an aimless lost soul than be befriended for adornment, gain or goal.

Am I a friend or a prospect? Imagine how much kinder life would be if people put as much effort into befriending others instead of trying to sell them something.

Where are the memories that held us together? Where are the dreams that were yet to come? I'm afraid to be happy. I shouldn't be happy. If I'm happy without you does that mean I've told you goodbye?

One of the disadvantages to having a choice is the inevitability to hang oneself on freedoms rope.

You can't fool Mother Nature, and you can't fool market forces (at least not for long)

Shame eats away at the core of who we are.

Strong I am one of those who never knows the direction of my journey until I have almost arrived.

Thanks be to God, Who gives us sufferingas sacred remedy for all our sins,that best and purest essence which preparesthe strong in spirit for divine delights!

Happiness is doing it rotten your own way.

I always knew, that in some way, I'd be connected to, and involved in, the music business.

There is therefore a tremendous mystery in the fact that God may be united with man and the man with God.

Don't move the way fear makes you move. Move the way love makes you move. Move the way joy makes you move.

Every since high school I've been drawn to magazines.

Tool - something with a use on one end and a grasp on the other end.