You can cut the ties that bind but not without losing a part of yourself. You can walk away and hide from the people who made you, but you'll always hear them calling your name.

When you love someone, it doesn't really matter if they love you back or not. Having love in your heart for someone is its own reward. or punishment, depending on the circumstances.

The Universe doesn't like secrets. It conspires to reveal the truth, to lead you to it.

Many people believe that evil is the presence of something. I think it's the absence of something.

I think that's the moment when we all grow up, when we stop blaming our parents for the messes we've made out of our lives and start owning the consequences of our actions.

The universe conspires to reveal the truth and to make your path easy if you have the courage to follow the signs.

We can't hold on to anyone or anything, you know. We lose everything except that which we carry within us.

It's strange how memory gets twisted and pulled like taffy in its retelling, how a single event can mean something different to everyone present.

The past is history. The future is a mystery. The present is a gift.

Hope is good. Without it, well, you do the math. But hope has to be like a prayer. Putting it out there to something more powerful than yourself.

Motherhood was an ever widening circle of good-byes.

Because you live to love and love to live/ And because of what your heardrum will give/ Now we might love to live and live to love.

We are not fit to lead an army on the march unless we are familiar with the face of the country -- its mountains and forests, its pitfalls and precipices, its marshes and swamps.

Everyone prays to his own god, that's why miracles happen to some and not to others

Today, due to the massive Chinese population transfer, the nation of Tibet truly faces the threat of extinction, along with its unique cultural heritage of Buddhist spirituality.

I've heard Stephen King say that when you write a novel you end up revealing everything about yourself.

Life is about work. Work is about life. And both are about people.

People ask me, 'Why pray if God is sovereign?' I respond, 'Why pray if He isn't?

It's the same the world over. A Hollywood production comes to town, and the locals all turn movie crazy.

Women are free in the Islamic Republic in the selection of their activities and their future and their clothing.

I am laughably aggressive, and the rest of the band is very laid back, so we mix well.