“For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?”

“What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.”

“Words ride on the energy of tone, its warmth or coldness; think of tone as the music of how words are expressed. You want this music to be soulful, whether you're giving sweet talk or tough love.”

“Green's a good color.”

“I think that hurting gives us a way to measure being happy. How can you know one without knowing the other.”

“Everybody knows that a good mother gives her children a feeling of trust and stability. She is their earth. She is the one they can count on for the things that matter most of all. She is their food and their bed and the extra blanket when it grows cold in the night; she is their warmth and their health and their shelter; she is the one they want to be near when they cry. She is the only person in the whole world in a whole lifetime who can be these things to her children. There is no substitute for her.”