“You are blind to reality and for that I am most proud.”

I have lost all my skills, and now I know how it feels to be utterly helpless like you and your sister.

You must prepare for life, and whatever it will throw at you.

I am suddenly overwhelmed with regret, it’s a new feeling for me, and I don’t find it at all pleasurable.

You are the life you accept for yourself.

One day you will look at those photos with much kinder eyes and say, ‘Dear God, I was a beautiful thing!

I’ve been burned so many times I’m like the human equivalent of the inside of a roasted marshmallow.

I want you to know, John, that you are the most important thing in this world to me.

I was perfectly fine not trusting people, not trusting people is what I’m used to

Social media is an amusement park for clinical narcissists.

Did I used to have a drinking problem?

Never let the bastards get you down!

Are we terrible parents?

If airplane safety videos have taught me anything, it’s that a mother puts her own mask on first.

One must champion oneself and say, I am ready for this!

If that’s not a cause for alcohol, I don’t know what is!

When one of us shines, all of us shine.

When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.

An eye for an eye. We are all blind.

Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.

But eyes are blind. You have to look with the heart.

Blindness separates people from things; deafness separates people from people.

Gentlemen, you will permit me to put on my spectacles, for, I have grown not only gray, but almost blind in the service of my country.

But if there’s love, dear – those are the ties that bind, and you’ll have a family in your heart, forever.

How narrow we selfish conceited creatures are in our sympathies! How blind to the rights of all the rest of creation!