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.

Rest easy, real mothers. The very fact that you worry about being a good mom means that you already are one.

Inside each of us is a monster; inside each of us is a saint. The real question is which one we nurture the most, which one will smite the other.

You'd think someone who'd been to medical school would be able to hear through a stethoscope that somebody was empty inside.

remember that every fire will burn itself out, even without your help.

I know that there will be other women, but they couldn't compare. Maybe I'll change, maybe love will change, but I think we were a once-in-a-lifetime. You could never leave me; that's why I am not more upset. You can't possibly break these feelings. They stretch, and they last.

If he says jump, she doesn't even ask "How high?" She goes out and buys a pogo stick.