We are the only ones who can tell our stories because we are the only ones who have lived them.

One person's weed is another person's wildflower.

The healing that can grow out of the simple act of telling our stories is often quite remarkable.

Does that mean you're prepared to deal with whatever turns up? People aren't sometimes. When they learn the real truth, they're all of a sudden content to live with a lie.

The worst thing about talk ... is that there's no way to lay it to rest. Every fresh breeze brings a new speculation.

Music keeps time and defies time, simultaneously.

Gratitude is the richest, most joyful feeling humans are privileged to experience.

There is a lot to learn about love and positions.

Hope arouses as nothing else can arouse a passion for the possible.

To say that the whole of the industrial experience of Europe and America just shows the rewards of exploiting the Third World is a gross simplification.

He was really into family... He'd never come on the road with me on the weekends 'cause he wanted to spend time with his wife.

Don't." Clary raised a warning hand. "I'm not really in the mood right now." "That's got to be the first time a girl's ever said that to me," Jace mused.

If you don't have the gift of a loving supportive family, be that gift for someone else. It doesn't have to be a relative, just someone you know who is alone or hurting over the holiday.

Receiving involves feeling the way you feel once your desire has manifested.

An old thing becomes new if you detach it from what usually surrounds it.

Let sovereignty be granted us over a portion of the earth's surface large enough to satisfy our rightful requirements as a nation. The rest we shall manage for ourselves.

I Was so Drunk, I Thought a Tube of Toothpaste Was Astronaut Food.