It's okay to accept things from people. It doesn't make you weak or helpless.

The worst thing you can do if you miss or need someone is let them know it.

You get what you give, but also what you're willing to take.

Family isn’t something that’s supposed to be static, or set. People marry in, divorce out. They’re born, they die. It’s always evolving, turning into something else.

The best gifts come from the heart, not the store.

funny how a beautiful song could tell such a sad story

You know the minute you stop thinking about it, it'll happen.

Like it takes so little not only to change something, but to make you forget the way it once was, as well.

What is family? They were the people who claimed you. In good, in bad, in parts or in whole, they were the ones who showed up, who stayed there, regardless.

Hey, and for what it's worth? Friends don't leave you alone in the woods. Friends are the ones who come and take you out.

Like I, of all people, didn't know better than to lead a total stranger to the point where they could hurt me most, knowing how easily they'd be able to find their way back to it.

God calls ignorance the rejection of knowledge, which simply means it is actually a choice to be ignorant.

What you value at the highest level needs to be in alignment with your partner or you will have conflict.

BELINDA: People say you shouldn’t speak ill of the dead. I say tell the truth. The dead will know what God will tell them. So start talking.

You're very lucky... Friends are precious, powerful things - hard to earn, harder still to keep. You should thank this one for taking a chance on you.

China has no income tax no unemployed and not a single soldier outside its own territory.

Basic education links the children, whether of the cities or the villages, to all that is best and lasting in India.

Reasonable people can reasonably disagree on policy.

How useful are documentary photographs if there is no follow up, no way of knowing what happened next in the story?

To be in love is to surpass one's self.

Do not let spacious plans for a new world divert your energies from saving what is left of the old.