But memory is like plaster: peel it back and you just might find a completely different picture.

When you love someone, you say their name different. Like it's safe inside your mouth.

I always hated when my scars started to fade, because as long as I could still see them, I knew why I was hurting.

Things that look impossible suddenly seem a lot better, once you get God on board.

Although you hadn't asked why, it had less to do with you not noticing than with you not wanting to hear the answer.

People ask all the time how I'm doing, but the truth is, they don't really want to know.

All any of us wanted, really, was to know that we counted. That someone else's life would not have been as rich without us here.

It never failed to amaze me how the most ordinary day could be catapulted into the extraordinary in the blink of an eye.

Maybe I was naïve to think that silence was implicit complacence, instead of a festering question. Maybe I was silly to believe that friends owed each other anything.

Doing the right thing for someone else occasionally means doing something that feels wrong to you.

What you didn't tell someone was just as debilitating as what you did.

Data that comes subliminally and is acted upon will look like luck or inspiration.

For the first time she saw that the nurse's name was Tabitha.

Every morning we awaken from sleep and from our dreams and enter the state we call wakefulness. A continuous stream of thoughts, most of them repetitive, characterizes the normal wakeful state.

Every extreme attitude is a fight from the self.

Latinos are just like everybody else. There are conservatives. There are moderates. There are liberals.

If a slave is unwilling to go with his new master, he is whipped, or locked up in jail, until he consents to go, and promises not to run away during the year.

Difference between diversity and inclusion is being invited to a house and being able to rearrange the furniture.

In the movie, you're moving, you have personality, you don't have to be great looking.

We all need friends with whom we can speak of our deepest concerns, and who do not fear to speak the truth in love to us.

I want to be distinguished from the rest; to tell the truth, a friend to all mankind is not a friend for me.