we had made love without love, half-dressed most of the time and always in the dark so we could imagine ourselves as better than we were.

A true friend is the one who holds your hand and touches your heart.

Nobody deserves your tears, but whoever deserves them will not make you cry.

What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.

I have learned that a man has the right and obligation to look down at another man, only when that man needs help to get up from the ground.

No matter what, nobody can take away the dances you've already had.

Tell him yes. Even if you are dying of fear, even if you are sorry later, because whatever you do, you will be sorry all the rest of your life if you say no.

Life is not what one lived, but what One remembers and how One remembers it in order to recount it

The only regret I will have in dying is if it is not for love.

Don't struggle so much, the best things happen when not expected.

If you love something - let. If it is yours - it will come back. I love you not because of who you are, but for who I am when I'm with you.

Every new day is the gift of a new divine grace.

She's a gypsy girl living in a materialistic world, Unattached to most things but in love with life itself.

I always wonder how to measure how beautiful life is.

To do nothing for the gomers was to do something, and the more conscientiously I did nothing the better they got.

I think drugs affect poor people and people of color more than anyone.

It was you readers who really came through, proving once again that when the American people decide to "get involved" in a problem, it is best not to let them have any sharp implements.

I've, we have in this state, like many other states, we're experiencing an enormous budget deficit that we're trying to grapple with. But we will have progress despite the deficits.

The most powerful teaching a child will ever receive will come from concerned and righteous fathers and mothers.

There are a lot of books about the passing of the English aristocracy, but the vast majority of Long Islanders don't understand their own backyard. It's a private preserve.

in black ink my love may still shine bright.