We remember with our emotions. The things that were important in our emotional life, that's what we remember.

Some wounds go so deep that you don't even feel them until months, maybe years, later.

A good teacher is one who helps you become who you feel yourself to be. A good teacher is also one who says something that you won't understand until 10 years later.

When I read students’ attempts at creative writing it is obvious immediately that most of them have not read much or widely. The aspiring writer must read everything he or she can to appreciate the myriad ways words are used and to what effect.

Being a failure at living your own life as best as you can is better than being a success living the life somebody else says you should live.

Just because she's dead it doesn't mean I stopped loving her or that she stopped loving me. It's just her body that left. The love didn't. —Jenna Richards

It ain't how long you know somebody that means anything. It's what that person mean to you in your heart.