Belief isn't supposed to make sense, at least not all the time. In that, it finds its power. It gets to creep up on you and carry you forward. Until you can carry yourself again.

Why does it take fear to move you? Why does it take chaos to make us understand exactly what we need to do?

People don’t break up because someone’s family is a little . . . messy. If that were the case, no one would ever get married.

We have to figure out how to let go, and forgive. This is our job

A dream isn't worth living if you don't have friends to live it with.

I am not a man of words, not yesterday, not the day before, not from the first time You spoke to your servant. I am slow of speech and tongue.

There were only three names on the map of the region we had brought with us, but we now filled in more than two hundred.

To experience commitment as the loss of options, a type of death, the death of childhood's limitless possibility, of the flattery of choice without duress-this will happen, mark me. Childhood's end.

Every day is an opportunity to fall or hurt yourself.

Never read a book to the end, nor even in sequence and without skipping.

Understanding does not come through analysis;understanding comes only when the mind is very quite,unburdened,no longer seeking success and therefore being thwarted,afraid of faluire.

Life responds to deserve and not to need.

It became a question of do I want to be on a label where it could take three years to put out a record instead of putting out three records over the same period of time on my own.

Expressing yourself when he takes for granted doesn't work.