It's never the differences between people that surprise us. It's the things that, against all odds, we have in common.

I wonder if other mothers feel a tug at their insides, watching their children grow up into the people they themselves wanted so badly to be.

Maybe that's what we do to the people we love: take shots in the dark and realize too late that we've wounded the people we are trying to protect.

I wonder how someone can leave in the blink of an eye without you even noticing.

You shouldn't believe what you hear about me, least of all that which I tell you myself.

There are always sides. There is always a winner, and a loser. For every person who gets, there's someone who must give.

Put ten people together in a Laundromat and chances are you won't be the one who's worst off

If you were drifting with a thousand other people, could you really still say you were lost?

You don't make peace only with G-d. You make it with people. Sin isn't global. It's personal. If you do wrong to someone, the only way to fix that is to go to that same person and do right by him.