A smile is a God given sun that lights up our lives in the midst of darkness

Too scared to fightToo afraid to open my eyesToo small to stand up for myselfToo awake to fight for my dreamsGod please teach me to be brave So that I can brave defeat

I know I am brave because the thought of giving up scares me more than the thought of fighting

I am defined not just by what you see, but by the potential within me, the possibilities I represent

Whatever you do, be fierce, be fearless

Whenever they say I am outgoing, I say...We must have met on the dance floor

When the days become darkThe nights become coldAnd all there is, is an empty soulBelieve you can escape your plightEven when relief is out of sightDon't you dare give up the fightDon't you dare

A crack on the road does not terminate the journey

You are the greatest treasure if you are your greatest treasure treasure

We were just two broken souls trying to fix one another...Somehow I ended up with a piece of you and you me

In search of that beat that my heart skipped when I first saw your beautiful soul...

I believe that it is impossible for two individuals not committed to their own and each other’s well being to sustain a healthy and enduring relationship.

Architecture is my work, and I've spent my whole life at a drawing board, but life is more important than architecture. What matters is to improve human beings.

Whenever you move, I think you lose your history.

Suffering produces the very endurance that will enable you to reach the finish line of the race set before you.

The temptation is not here, where you are reading about it or praying about it. It is down in your shop, among bales and boxes, ten-penny nails, and sand-paper.

Rise above the limited conditions of pleasure and pain, success and failure, happiness and sorrow, that all the countless unenlightened beings in creation are slaves to.

True courage is about knowing not when to take a life, but when to spare one.

In the land of God's and Monsters, I was an angel looking to get f-ked hard.

A woman who'd lost her first son consoled us with an angel gone ahead to pray for our family-- gone into that sky seeking oxygen, gone into autopsy

My only crime was being a man and living in the world of men, and you don't have to do special penance for that. The crime and the penance, in that case, coincide perfectly. They are identical.