“No living thing belongs to anybody. It belongs to itself.”

Life has meaning only when you give it meaning otherwise it is pure chaos.

You ask me for nothing. So, I give you everything.

The love you sought was already in the heart you were giving away.

A smile is like a hug but with your mouth. So Smile.

I’m dancing on the edge of the knife, as I cut out pieces of my heart to feed your beasts.

Pick the ones that are closest to your heart and stay true to them.

Please be careful. Hearts are fragile.

Ground your strength in love.

Everything about you tells me I’m your woman.

If it hurts then you’ll always remember.

I would have done everything for you. And you did everything for yourself.

The dimmest light you see isn’t necessarily the brightest but it shines.

Her desire to play outweighed her fears.

Don’t hold on, for nothing lasts. Feel all you can feel and then let it pass through, free.

She was born perfect into a world that threw her away.

May the bridges I burn light my way.

We wander, question. But the answer waits in each separate heart – the answer of our own identity and the way by which we can master loneliness and feel that at last we belong.

I prayed hard and only gradually became aware that this fierce praying was a way of finding prologue and entrance into my own writing. This came as both astonishment and relief. When I thought God had abandoned me,

The young writer would be a fool to follow a theory. Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.

Guys like Josh Gordon need to stay in his sport and mind his own business.

I’m not the king in my own house. I have to wash the dishes and take out the trash and say, ‘Yes, baby.’ I’m 6-foot-5, but I kind of walk around hunched over.

People spending more of their own money on routine health care would make the system more competitive and transparent and restore the confidence between the patients and the doctors without government rationing.

In my own personal life, God plays a great role in the risk, because I pray before I go into the operating room for every case, and I ask him to give me wisdom, to help me to know what to do – and not only for operating, but for everything.

I think I became my own stylist by not knowing any better.