Strangers are just family you have yet to come to know.

For many of us, the curtain had just come down on childhood.

He cried that night for all that he had lost, but he would say it taught him a valuable lesson: that holding on to things "will only break your heart.

Why are we embarassed by silence? What comfort do we find in all the noise?

Because when the world quiets to the sound of your own breathing, we all want the same things: comfort, love, and a peaceful heart.

There is no formula to relationships. They have to be negotiated in loving ways, with room for both parties, what they want and what they need, what they can do and what their life is like.

Mortality means you don't have forever to work things out. You can live your life unexamined but then on the last day you're going to think: 'I've left things a little late.