I don't blame you for everything, she told me. Just the stuff my friends & I can agree on.

Anyone can slay a dragon, he told me, but try waking up every morning and loving the world all over again. That's what takes a real hero.

I sometimes wake in the early morning & listen to the soft breathing of my children & I think to myself, this is one thing I will never regret & I carry that quiet with me all day long.

Time stands still best in moments that look suspiciously like ordinary life.

Most people don't know there are angels whose only job is to make sure you don't get too comfortable & fall asleep & miss your life.

I hope someday you see this is all life wants: for you to be your own kind of beautiful & not the kind that makes you forget who you are.

There are days I drop words of comfort on myself like falling leaves and remember that it is enough to be taken care of by myself.

There are lives I can imagine without children but none of them have the same laughter & noise.

If you hold on to the handle, it's easier to maintain the illusion of control. But it's more fun if you just let the wind carry you.

I've always like the time before dawn because there's no one around to remind me who I'm supposed to be, so it's easier to remember who I am.

Everything changed the day she figured out there was exactly enough time for the important things in her life.

I'm told there's no going back. So I'm choosing forward.

Courtship is an activity whereby one losses oneself … whilst trying to win someone’s love.

I want you to remember what was good in me, not what was most awful. The people you love should be allowed to keep their worst to themselves.

It was a country life, a precious existence.

I often joke that 100 years from now I hope people are saying, 'Dang, she looks good for her age!'

My wife's French. I mean I speak a bit of French but I've lived amongst French, you know, most of my adult life.

I do have traditional values: I believe in being a good person and being polite.

I don't believe in rules. It's different for everybody. Everyone has to make their own decision and find out what's comfortable for them.

In book subjects a student can only do a student's work. All that can be measured is how well he learns, rather than how well he performs. All he can show is promise.

What kind of sick person would answer rainbows?