Lesson learned: Don’t ever put a guy up on a pedestal. It’s too easy for him to tip over and fall off.

It is a fundamental misperception," Fouts says to me, "to think human life has more value than any other life form.

So long as governments set the example of killing their enemies, private individuals will occasionally kill theirs.

He loves me, he loves me not. How many flowers must I kill before he loves me?” ~He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not

I considered not getting up, but recognized the pain of staying down was worse than the pain of attempting to stand.

Love has no demand of us but to keep practicing, to do the next hard thing. Love says, Come dear. Take the next step.

It's the only way anything will change. Because we are both mother and child, cause and effect, villain and victim

When you want something, all the Universe conspires to helping you achieve it." -- The Alchemist, Paulo CoelhoJust ask..

...I didn't want to be a passenger on someone else's motorcycle.I wanted to be the one riding that motherfucker.

Disney will never make a movie about my life story, and that's a shame--I'd make a really cute animated creature.

They had buried him under our elm tree, they said -- yet this was not totally true. For he really lay buried in my heart.

The vicar's handshake was warm and reassuring, but shaking hands with Mavis was like clutching a bunch of dead twigs.

The greatest challenge of my life has been to see and accept the actual truth without great pain and struggle against it.

I believe in beauty. I believe in goodness. I believe in the power of turning: the other cheek, time, curve of the earth.

The Buddha taught that most problems - if only you give them enough time and space - will eventually wear themselves out.