And you know, I believed him. What girl wouldn't?

Better to be strong than pretty and useless.

What you cannot escape, you must fight; what you cannot fight, you must endure.

I went to the entrance to the restroom, where the hallway did a sharp bend so nobody could peek into the girls' pee-palace.

What you can't run away from, you have to face

Are you listening, little bird?

Christophe, with the careful tone of an adult telling a kid not to pet the nice foaming-rabid pooch.

If something is visceral and unsettling for me, my job is to not look away, not to punk out. Sometimes the dark things come from places inside me, experiences Ive had, that need to be transformed.

That's the funny thing about old hurts- they just wait for new heartache to come along and then show up, just as sharp and horrible as the first day you woke up with the world changed all around you.

His eyebrows drew together. He was perilously close to unibrow; I guess nobody had held him down and administered a good plucking to the caterpillar climbing across his forehead.

The only place their voices were left was in my head. It was better than being alone but it was so, so lonely.

There are enough real enemies and threats in the world without having to invent imaginary ones.

Where is our gift?Inside our heartWhat is our purpose?To open our heart and start giving our gift away

We will know which stars to visit. Our descendants will then skim the light years, the children of Thales and Aristarchus, Leonardo and Einstein.

Gabe held my face between his hands. “What you two have — it’s a once in a lifetime — you fight for him, sweetheart. Fight for him with every last breath. No regrets, okay?

All is energy and there is no energy higher than right love, which has no object

The American people are too well schooled in the duty and practice of submitting to the will of the majority to permit any serious uneasiness on that account

When work is a pleasure, life is a joy! When work is a duty, life is slavery.

I'll go anywhere to talk about the Constitution. I believe in trans-partisan organizing around these issues.

Before there was a proper understanding and a sense of God's presence, the idea that everything would one day end was utterly desolating.

The beauty of design ought to be totally incidental to the enterprise itself.