Every lover is, in his heart, a madman, and, in his head, a minstrel.

If there's one thing that a study of history has taught us, it is that things can always get worse.

Being brave doesn't mean you aren't scared. Being brave means you are scared, really scared, badly scared, and you do the right thing anyway.

If you have something specific and visible to fear, rather than something that could be anything, it is easier.

Each person who ever was or is or will be has a song. It isn't a song that anybody else wrote. It has its own melody, it has its own words. Very few people get to sing their song. Most of us fear that we cannot do it justice with our voices, or that our words are too foolish or too honest, or too odd. So people live their song instead.

Words can wound, and wounds can heal.

Media. I think I have heard of her. Isn't she the one who killed her children?