You can tell yourself that you would be willing to lose everything you have in order to get something you want. But it's a catch-22: all of those things you're willing to lose are what make you recognizable. Lose them, and you've lost yourself.

When you’re hurting deeply, you go inward.

It took me a lifetime to realizethings don't get lost if they don't have value- you don't miss what you don't care about.

There is a curious thing that happens with the passage of time: a calcification of character... Change isn't always for the worst; the shell that forms around a piece of sand looks to some people like an irritation, and to others, like a pearl.

You can fool yourself, you know. You'd think it's impossible, but it turns out it's the easiest thing of all.

You don't make peace only with G-d. You make it with people. Sin isn't global. It's personal. If you do wrong to someone, the only way to fix that is to go to that same person and do right by him.

We are all, I suppose, beholden to our parents - the question is, how much?