Depression thrives in secrecy but shrinks in empathy.

I must give you this warning: your journeys will rarely ever go as you plan. You will make mistakes, and you will feel lost. Whenever that happens, look to the light and keep moving forward in faith.

In the quiet of the graveyard, the couple knelt together in soul-stretching silence—wishing, waiting, hoping, praying.

Willpower, though important in its own way, is never enough. In order for you to be truly powerful, you must open up and trust in something beyond yourself—something you cannot prove for certain.

Have faith in the light you carry.

Faith is believing in something you cannot prove for certain.

Always go as far as you can see, then let faith take you the rest of the way.

And so I tell you, restless one, that no matter what happens, when things get dark, look to the light and keep moving forward in faith.

Where does your soul walk? Does it walk in the sunlit woods or hide in the shadowy forest?

I didn't just see a child in my dreams—I felt it in my heart.

Where does your soul walk?

Modern poetry, for me, began not in English at all but in Spanish, in the poems of Lorca.

I can't settle for merely liking a man when I've known what it’s like to love one.

All kids need is a little help, a little hope and somebody who believes in them.

When a man dies, and his kin are glad of it, they say, "He is better off."

In the intercourse of life, we please more by our faults than by our good qualities.

If we can have drones, we can have brown people on TV, and the world won't end! We need to catch up. We are painfully behind.

All the rest of the world could only kill or devastate my mind and body. Bones alone held the power to demolish my soul.

Behind a leader there must be followers, but they should always be on the lookout for the main chance and ready to change sides if the current leader doesn't deliver.

Love gratified is love satisfied, and love satisfied is indifference begun.

You can make a lot of money. You can rule kingdoms or run huge businesses or control vast terrain. But if you're just doing it for yourself, you're not really a success.