We are not meant to resolve all contradictions but to live with them and rise above them.

Enlightenment means taking full responsibility for your life.

No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.

The man who never alters his opinions is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.

The imagination is not a state: it is the human existence itself.

If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.

What is now proved was once only imagined.

We are here to learn to endure the beams of love

Make your own rules or be a slave to another man's.

Mans desires are limited by his perceptions; none can desire what he has not perceived.

The person who does not believe in miracles surely makes it certain that he or she will never take part in one.

My father, who suffered from hardening of the arteries, was diagnosed as having that tragic thief of the mind, Alzheimer's.

We were far more civilized in our divorce than we had ever been in marriage. It seemed we'd finally found something we could do together amicably.

I can't find a person without some link to the armed forces!

I'm as interested in the families and communities that surround our soldiers.

Count on Jill Shalvis for a witty, steamy, unputdownable love story.

Ignorance might be bliss, but it's irresponsible and dangerous too.

It's no good to lose touch with people who mean a lot.

Struggling is mandatory. Suffering is optional.