The middle way is a view of life that avoids the extreme of misguided grasping born of believing there is something we can find, or buy, or cling to that will not change. And it avoids the despair and nihilism born from the mistaken belief that nothing matters, that all is meaningless.

Loving someone who doesn't love you back is like hugging a cactus. The tighter you hold on, the more it's going to hurt.

The United Nations defines violence against women as any act of gender-based violence that results in, or is likely to result in, physical, sexual or mental harm or suffering to women, including threats of such acts, coercion or arbitrary deprivation of liberty, whether occurring in public or in private life.

A true friend sees the first tear, catches the second an stops the third.

A father is neither an anchor to hold us back, nor a sail to take us there, but a guiding light whose love shows us the way.

If you pay peanuts, you wind up hiring monkeys.

Even the most beautiful days eventually have their sunsets.