The choice was whether to be sad and foolish or sad and reasonable.

All the men I know add that “hands that prepared it” line. They must know it’s right complimentary, an incentive to keep the women cooking.

Neva ought to smile more. It breaks her anxiety into tiny pieces of joy you want to gather up and hand back to her in your palms, as if to say, “See what you can make when you loose the reins.

I’m serious, now let me know every time you see her cry. The thought brings me great joy. Hope.

I allowed myself a microscopic view into his ice-colored eyes. It was like viewing one of those photographs of the Arctic region – very foreign, exotic, clearly a place you’ve never dreamed of going.

If there’s one thing I learned in Alanon, it’s that you got to face the music because it just grows louder when you ignore it.

I’ve never known a tranquil atheist. Don’t they always look like they just sat on a tack?

My tongue was handed down to meby datus and katipuneros. The truth ismy mouth is a battlefield thatyou wouldn’t know how to fight in.

I believe we are the ones who hurt ourselves the most, by how we receive, by how we perceive.

Be brave, my heart. Plant your feet and square your shoulders to the enemy. Meet him among the man-killing spears. Hold your ground. In victory, do not brag; in defeat, do not weep.

There never was a good knife made of bad steel.

Beautiful eyes in the face of a handsome woman are like eloquence to speech.

Even if you only counted the votes that actually made it through the hoops in order to be cast, the president was really Al Gore.

If you will not rise above the things of this world, they will rise above you.

Sometimes I dream song ideas. I write a song in my dream, the melody and everything. But then sometimes I can't remember them. I think later on, I probably do.

Avoid food products that make health claims. at meals and eat them only at tables. And no, a desk is not a table.

God never shuts one door without opening a bigger better door. Hang in there. You are closer to success than you may think.