"Love like rain, can nourish from above, drenching couples with soaking joy. But sometimes, under the angry heat of life, love dries on the surface and must nourish from below, tending to its roots, keeping itself alive."
"Sacrifice is a part of life. It's supposed to be. It's not something to regret. It's something to aspire to."
"People often belittle the place where they were born but heaven can be found in the most unlikely places."
"Holding anger is a poison...It eats you from inside...We think that by hating someone we hurt them...But hatred is a curved blade...and the harm we do to others...we also do to ourselves."
"All parents damage their children. It cannot be helped. Youth, like pristine glass, absorbs the prints of its handlers. Some parents smudge, others crack, a few shatter childhoods completely into jagged little pieces, beyond repair."
"There are no random acts...We are all connected...You can no more separate one life from another than you can separate a breeze from the wind..."