You can't forgive without loving. And I don't mean sentimentality. I don't mean mush. I mean having enough courage to stand up and say, 'I forgive. I'm finished with it.'

When things were very bad his soul just crawled behind his heart and curled up and went to sleep

If I'm here, I'll be trying to be a better human being, a better writer, a better friend and a better beloved.

If we don't plant the right things, we will reap the wrong things. It goes without saying. And you don't have to be, you know, a brilliant biochemist and you don't have to have an IQ of 150. Just common sense tells you to be kind, ninny, fool. Be kind.

I think that that's the wisest thing - to prevent illness before we try to cure something.

Be the rainbow in someone else's cloud.

Exchange love for hate...Thereby, making the present comfortable and the future promising.