But what I realize, here, now, is that it's not actually making the choice that takes courage. It's facing it afterward. Owning up to it, whether it's good or bad.

Time goes by slowly when you spend it waiting.

You know... sometimes we meet our destiny on the road we take to avoid it.

I read once that water is a symbol for emotions. And for a while now I've thought maybe my mother drowned in both.

But when’s the last time you took a chance? Or didn’t do what someone else expected of you? Or did something you really wanted to, even though you probably shouldn’t have?

We're all more than the person we show to everyone else.

That’s what seems the most sad to me—that neither of them even think there’s a possibility they can be together.

That's the best part. The how.

We're all more than the person we show to everyone else. At least I hope so. Because I feel like there's more to me than that. I just haven't had the chance yet to show it.

Sometimes a shock to the system is a good thing, you know? Like a reminder that you're alive.

[I]t wasn't history that was too fragile, but me.

Before I go on stage, I pretend that everyone loves me.

I don't think anyone could write about another culture and get it 100 percent accurate.

I feel like one of God's chosen people, having had the opportunity to share, with many fine companions, these varied and lovely realms of our natural world.

Water a farre off quencheth not fire.

It's the company, not the cooking, that makes a meal.

Technique-bodily control-must be mastered only because the body must not stand in the way of the soul's expression.

We're antithetical. You use your mind one way; I use mine another. I recognize what you're doing, but I can't imagine it.

Putting a family member in jail is a good sign there is something seriously wrong in the home.

A football team is like a society, straight up. There are rapists, but there are creatures and there are film guys.

It's really never fair to judge people because none of us know what's going on inside anyone else's head.