Everyone in the world was programmed by the place they were born, hemmed in by their beliefs, but you had to at least try to grow your own brain. Otherwise, you might as well be living on a...

Life is a dynamic rather than a static process, and when we don't change it kills us. It's not running away, it's moving on.

Back at Rachel, thinking that she got it just right. Love and friendship. They are what make us who we are, and what can change us, if we let them.

Treat a child as though he is already the person he is capable of becoming. - Haim Ginott

Loving life is easy when you are abroad. Where no one knows you and you hold your life in your hands all alone, you are more master of yourself than at any other time

Get used to disappointment.

"And then she got older, and . . ." Lydia shook her head. "Having a teenager is like having a really, really shitty roommate. They eat all your food and steal your clothes and take money out of your...

We're humans, so we're messy

Life's tough and even tougher when you're stupid

Don't think about why you question, simply don't stop questioning. Don't worry about what you can't answer, and don't try to explain what you can't know. Curiosity is its own reason. Aren't you in awe...

Stay humble; don't interfere; respect your creative genius

To be nobody - but - yourself - in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else - means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop...

I live by the ancient adage that I truly understand today, Fear knocked on the door; love answered, and no one was there. As one of my greatest teachers, Ralph Waldo Emerson, once observed, 'They can...

Where there is hatred, let me sow love.

parents are not for leaning upon, but rather exist to make leaning unnecessary.

You live if you dance to the voice that ails you.

People think a soul mate is your perfect fit, and that's what everyone wants. But a true soul mate is a mirror, the person who shows you everything that's holding you back, the person who brings you...

What I said to God through my gasping sobs was something like this: 'Hello, God. How are you? I'm Liz. It's nice to meet you.' That's right - I was speaking to the creator of the universe as though...

And maybe it's like that with every important aspect of your life. Whatever it is you are pursuing, whatever it is you are seeking, whatever it is you are creating, be careful not to quit too soon.

I couldn't care less about evidence and proof and assurances. I just want God. I want God inside me. I want God to play in my bloodstream the way sunlight amuses itself on water.

The search for contentment is, therefore, not merely a self - preserving and self - benefiting act, but also a generous gift to the world. You cease being an obstacle, not only to yourself but to...

People don't make good Anchors, though, Craig. They change. The people here are going to change.

At least I'm giving someone an example not to follow.

There comes a time in every young woman's life when she must learn to trust the evidence of her own senses, of her own experiences, if it does not confirm what she has heard from others.

Everyone finds satisfaction in the place that suits them.

A desk is a dangerous place from which to view the world. - JOHN LE CARRÉ

What I'm trying to say, Garion,' Durnik continued seriously, 'is that you can't go through life being afraid of what you are. If you do that, sooner or later somebody will come along who'll...

Greatness is something which can be regarded in a number of ways, he said. It is, of course, the apotheosis, man raised to his highest powers, but it also can be, in a way, like insanity, a certain...

But at times I wondered if I had not come a long way only to find that what I really sought was something I had left behind.

I came to see that knowing what love isn't might be just as valuable, though infinitely less satisfying, as knowing what it is.