Most of us all walk around as if we're sleepwalking. We really don't experience the world fully, because we're half-asleep, doing things we automatically think we have to do.

When someone is in your heart, they're never truly gone. They can come back to you, even at unlikely times.

Sometimes when you sacrifice something precious, you're not really losing it. You're just passing it on to someone else.

I had a very high-grade publisher tell me I was incapable of writing a memoir.

When you're rotten about yourself, you become rotten to everyone else, even those you love.

She was like a wound beneath an old bandage, and he had grown more used to the bandage.

I traded lots of dreams for a bigger paycheck, and I never even realized I was doing it.