When you are criticizing someone, you should speak only to your own experience - not others'.

Unsolicited advice is always self-serving.

People don't change when they don't acknowledge their actions.

Climb aboard life's elevator, hit the "up" button, and see where it takes you.

Sometimes the way through someone's tough outer shell is to do something obvious, thoughtful and sweet.

This is a tough situation. But it is what it is, and time has an amazing way of knitting together solutions as long as everybody stays calm and resolves to be as gentle and patient as possible.

Bullies never want to acknowledge their own actions. They want to move through life without reflection or apology.

Ask 10 people about their family relationships and at least five of them will report an estrangement.

Bullies often act out by marshaling aggression to cover up for insecurity.

When the choice is between a demanding relationship and a vintage pickup truck, I'll choose the truck every time.

Do not make your current partner pay for the crimes and misdemeanors of your previous partners.

Human rights must work to uplift human dignity.

Clarinet n. An instrument of torture operated by a person with cotton in his ears. There are two instruments worse than a clarinet – two clarinets.

I can't tell them what to do!" "Why not?" the other girl demanded. "Honestly, Clary, if you don't start utilizing a bit of your natural feminine superiority, I just don't know what I'll do with you.

I never learn my lesson.

A suppressed resolve will betray itself in the eyes.

I'm very fond of drugs.

It's all in the mind or it's all in the head. Surrounded by bone, it's nothing but muscle.

But which is the stone that supports the bridge?

Sometimes I feel as though I'm trying to take a hit for the team so that other people then can move forward. I'm like, "Look, I just laid out all of my stuff, so what's the worst that can happen?".

I'd like to thank my wife, Anna. I love you more than rainbows, baby