One knows the petals, another the thorns, but neither comprehends the rose.

The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.
-Jane Austen

And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.
-William Shakespeare

Family is not blood, it's who is there for you in your best and worst of times.

When you call someone a liar, and they are not, that makes you the liar, and you are only hurting yourself.

At the bottom of another glass, at the end of another line; Trying to find your way to the front, balancing this life is a death-defying stunt.

Is it really to much if all I ask for is to not be sad?

My identity is my most important possession.

Teaching - the art of closing your eyes as you learn the other with your heart.

Whenever you evaluate something, you are evaluating yourself first for judgement is more than the exercise of your own subjectivity.