"Strangers are just family you have yet to come to know."
"The only time we waste is the time we spend thinking we are alone."
"All parents damage their children. It cannot be helped. Youth, like pristine glass, absorbs the prints of its handlers. Some parents smudge, other crack, a few shatter childhoods completely into jagged little pieces, beyond repair."
"You have peace... when you make it with yourself."
"Holding anger is a poison. It eats you from inside. We think that hating is a weapon that attacks the person who harmed us. But hatred is a curved blade. And the harm we do, we do to ourselves."
"People say you 'find' love, as if it were an object hidden by a rock. But love takes many forms & it is never the same for any man & woman. What people find then is a certain love."
"Love, like rain, can nourish from above, drenching couples with a soaking joy. But sometimes, under the angry heat of life, love dries on the surface & must be nourished from below, tending to its roots, keeping itself alive."
