When you share feelings with someone, or secrets, it adds a layer of complexity to even the simplest things.

Nothing stings quite like an unanswered text message.

Who would vandalize a doghouse? I ask."Cats?" Bee suggests.

Standing up for yourself is about more than flinging barbed-wire insults around. Its about picking your battles, knowing when to fight, knowing exactly what and who is worth fighting for.

But if you want him, you might have to fight for him." I let my head fall to the tabletop. "For the love of all that is dead and Chinese, please, no more fighting. This army needs a break.

Allegra's Austen wrote about the impact of financial need on the intimate lives of women. If she'd worked in a bookstore, Allegra would have shelved Austen in the horror section.

The guitar poured out its soul, its history, its dreams, its pain, its victories, its secrets. The guitar’s strings purred with blues and ended with a haunting solitary song with no lyrics.

Dream, think BIG live the life of your dreams.

Happiness is overrated and money can't justify it.

Immigrants provide skills that we simply cannot afford to do without. They have contributed hugely to Britain's success.

What good is a Bill of Rights that does not include the right to play, to wander, to explore, the right to stillness and solitude, to discovery and physical freedom?

The real struggle is not between the right and the left but between the party of the thoughtful and the party of the jerks.

That is always our problem, not how to get control of people, but how all together we can get control of a situation.

The earth is like a spaceship that didn't come with an operating manual.

And I liked pluralist Australia. I got a taste for pluralist Australia. I like, I like Australians and I can't believe that they're going to go to hell because they tell a good dirty joke, you know.