“You can bail water 24/7, and no matter how good you are at not sinking, you still have a hole in your boat.”

“Real connection (and if it's LOVE, then real love)--goes beyond those not-so-perfect and superficial and idiosyncratic things that simply make us individuals. The trust and longevity of a relationship between two individuals is established through time and learning each other, and discovering a harmony at the core of their connection. And it becomes powerful because of where it resides--at the center of who we are--the very essence of our being.”

“Irony of the day: arthritis medication with a cap that old people can't get off, because of their arthritis.”

“I will not dumb myself down to make someone else more comfortable with their ignorance.”

“Some people have goodness and merit buried deep inside and we glimpse it and see its value but ultimately it's covered by so much dirt that it's a 24/7 exercise in archaeology.”

“It's one thing to say you think someone "hung the moon" but that generally means you are blind and deluded, and then the relationship fails because they say you changed, when really, they never saw you at all...The real test is if someone sees all your flaws or blemishes or individual differences, and they still think you hung the moon.”

“You're only responsible for being honest, not for someone else's reaction to your honesty.”

“The conundrum of sanity and insanity, is that it serves us to be some of each. It's really only a question of degrees. You cannot possibly be 100% adjusted and live in this INSANE world. A little bit of crazy is a coping skill.”

“Am I too much for the world, or is the world too much for me?”

“I'm an open book. But some of the pages are stuck together.”

“You can bail water 24/7, and no matter how good you are at not sinking, you still have a hole in your boat.”