You need to face what you're running from

Sometimes love means letting go when you want to hold on tighter.

Happiness is a choice.

He tipped her head up. "Don't give up. Don't leave me before you're even here.

you are my life now. this"_he waved a hand dismissively around him at the club-"the fey, everything, it all falls into place once you accept me" -kennan

Chase away sorrow by living

He looked good, like sin in a suit.

We are what we are, neither a good or as bad as others paint us. And what we are doesn't change how truly we feel, only how free we are to follow those feelings.

Choose to be happy. It is what we have all done.

I'd stop anyone from taking that smile from you. I would, if I were allowed.

Mortals are such fragile things. Just tender feelings walking around exposed in their delicate shells...Easy to crush.

Beauty of music enlightens the soul and fills it with ecstasy.

Love is not blind.Love sees everything and says yes to it all.

You must know life to see decay.

As a chef I’m not your dietitian or your ethicist, I’m in the pleasure business.

Guilt is really the reverse side of the coin of pride. Guilt aims at self-destruction, and pride aims at the destruction of others.

Apology is the most courageous gesture we can make to ourselves.

Next time you're about to judge someone, attempt to understand them instead.

I grew up near the sea in British Columbia and San Francisco, and lived in Malibu and Fiji for years. I get uncomfortable being too far inland.

I'm looking forward to seeing more of the US, and hopefully spending some of the summer in Europe playing festivals. It's early days though, so who knows.

We routinely leave our small children in day care among strangers. At the same time, in our guilt we evince paranoia about strangers and foster fear in children.