So this had been all I wanted, a boy who understood how I felt. Now, though, I sometimes wished for more.

Don't think or judge, just listen.

There comes a time when the world gets quiet and the only thing left is your own heart. So you'd better learn the sound of it. Otherwise you'll never understand what it's saying.

Your actions is like a raindrop; it falls into the pond making ripples and then its over.

It's a lot easier to be lost than found. It's the reason we're always searching and rarely discovered--so many locks not enough keys.

Looking at the pond, all I could think was that it is an incredivle thing, how a whole world can rise from what seems like nothing at all.

If you didn't love him, this never would have happened. But you did. And accepting that love and everything that followed it is part of letting it go.

You should never be surprised when someone treats you with respect, you should expect it.

Sometimes a question can hurt more than an answer.

Being brave and self-confident doesn't necessarily start inside...It starts with the rest of the world, and it leads back to you.

There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment.

You can't do a good deal with a bad guy. The dishonesty tax is too high and is not something you will factor into your side of the equation.

There is nothing wrong with the world of physicality. There is nothing wrong with existence. It's perfect ... but it's terribly transient.

I grew up in a completely bookless household. It was my father's boast that he had never read a book from end to end.

The gardens of my youth were fragrant gardens and it is their sweetness rather than their patterns of their furnishings that I now most clearly recall.

Happiness and joy are inner qualities that can't be shaken by outer circumstances because they are inherent within the core Self.

Say nothing good of yourself, you will be distrusted; say nothing bad of yourself, you will be taken at your word.

Develop Self-confidence, then love will fol­low; it will come naturally from within. And that way the love will be pure.

What the church most needs is not heroes of faith, but faithful followers of Jesus.

This is not a skill problem, this is a will problem. Does America have the will to make education a priority? We know the things that work. Why don't we scale up those things that do work.

For people who are desperate and searching, sexuality on the Internet offers an incredible release.