Oh, but it's our tears that make us human, Isabel.

It is much harder to pretend than it is to simply be who you already are.

The person who completes your life, is not so much the person who shares all the years of your existence, but rather, the person who made your life worth living -- no matter how long or short a time you are given to spend with them.

Control is an illusion. No one has it. I don't even have it. You can't wish for control; you can only learn to play your part in a world where nothing is truly certain. And you do have a part to play.

There is good and there is bad in every human heart, and it is the struggle of life to conquer the bad with the good.

Each time we enter imaginatively into the life of another, it's a small step upwards in the elevation of the human race.