You will finally have dignity when you realize that you are not on the path, but have become the path for others.

He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.

If you spend your time hoping someone will suffer the consequences for what they did to your heart, then you're allowing them to hurt you a second time in your mind.

There comes a time in your life when you have to choose to turn the page, write another book or simply close it.

A true gentleman is one that apologizes anyways, even though he has not offended a lady intentionally. He is in a class all of his own because he knows the value of a woman's heart.

A best friend is the only one that walks into your life when the world has walked out.

The most confused you will ever get is when you try to convince your heart and spirit of something your mind knows is a lie.

When you loved someone and had to let them go, there will always be that small part of yourself that whispers, "What was it that you wanted and why didn't you fight for it?

The most introspective of souls are often those that have been hurt the most.

When someone you love says goodbye you can stare long and hard at the door they closed and forget to see all the doors God has open in front of you.

If he can't handle you at your worst then he does not deserve you at your best. Real love means seeing beyond the words spoken out of pain, and instead seeing a person's soul.

You were standing in the wake of devastation And you were waiting on the edge of the unknown And with the cataclysm raining down Insides crying "Save me now" You were there, impossibly alone

Mrs. Hopewell had no bad qualities of her own but she was able to use other people's in such a constructive way that she never felt the lack.

We focus so much on how immigrants can change America that we forget that America has always changed immigrants even more.

I hated myself totally white. So now I cheat. It's my white hair, and I put color there. My grandson says I'm punk.

Butler compared the tongues of these eternal talkers to race-horses, which go the faster the less weight they carry.

Existence itself is nothing if not an amazement. Good poems restore amazement.

London is like a cold dark dream sometimes.

The heart of our problem is the problem of our hearts.

When people succeed they party, when people fail they ponder.

It isrequisite from time to time to remind one generation of the experience which led a former generation to important legislative actions.