Strange new problems are being reported in the growing generations of children whose mothers were always there, driving them around, helping them wit….

You can only see in someone else what you see in yourself..

The sad part is that all we're trying to do is not feel that underlying uneasiness. The sadder part is that we proceed in such a way that the uneasin….

We're trapped in a world that's troubled with pain. As long as a man has the strength to dream, he can redeem his soul and fly..

We are in a very critical and sensitive time in this nation. We need our president to sit down with folks who have a personal experience, a deep conn….

... hunger and cold, ill-health and pain are nothing. They pass. The thing that remains is ignorant criticism, well-meaning but futile advice, the co….

There is an element of autobiography in all fiction in that pain or distress, or pleasure, is based on the author's own. But in my case that is as fa….

I love the combination of smartness, pain, and what one might call conscious postmodern trashiness in this book: a version of the erotic full of nerv….

Ten minutes of genuine belly laughter had an anesthetic effect and would give me at least two hours of pain-free sleep..

I know what it feels like to be hurt,and I don't want to cause that pain to any other person or creature. But somehow, in society, we numb ourselves ….

In love there is no because..

You won't be happy anywhere until you're happy somewhere..

But forgiveness is the act of not putting anyone out of your heart, even those who are acting out of deep ignorance or out of confusion and pain..

There is no balm of Gilead, No salve, no soothing ointment To stay the pain of one who's had In love a disappointment-- Unless it be that healing lot….

So we [with Kate DiCamillo] would act them out, we would toss ideas back and forth, we would laugh, we would argue. Sometimes it went really well, so….

We become pitiable and ridiculous when we imbibe an unreasoned mysticism in our life without any natural or substantial basis. People like us, who ar….

Pain is not a punishment; pleasure is not a reward..

One of the essential tasks for living a wise life is letting go. Letting go is the path to freedom. It is only by letting go of the hopes, the fears,….

Knowledge is after all a non-rivalrous good.

Once again your mind explodes with a searing pain. A floodgate of memories bursts wide. Yet it is her face that keeps haunting you. Always her face. ….

If you love someone, you'd rather suffer the pain alone to spare them..