Because what's perplexing is not that you and I encounter suffering in this life

I haven't forgottenThat I have to grow upAnd someday live withoutYour voice, your opinion--Making my own decisions.

Waiting never makes things easier or less troublesome.

When I played sports, if you lose the game, and then you complain, that makes you a sore loser. That doesn't make you protester - that just makes you a whiner.

Poetry is something to make us wiser and better, by continually revealing those types of beauty and truth, which God has set in all men's souls.

What if I gave thanks in the trouble, for the trouble, because the trouble is a gift that causes me to turn? What if I loved God not for His goods but for His love itself that is goodness enough?

I'd like to be more of a bad influence than a role model. I'm getting lots of boys to wear eye-liner again which is good.

This is our lives. The way to give it dignity is to tell the truth.

I don't want to be an actress, because I think that they have to be really pretty, and I'm not.

The more you look, the more you see.

There is a difference between him who claspeth his mistress in his arms, and him whose eyes are fixed on the door expecting her.