Each step is more difficult than the last; the heaviness fills me and turns my limbs to stone. You must hurt or be hurt.

But how could anyone who's ever seen a summer - big explosion of green and skies lit up electric with splashy sunsets, a riot of flowers and wind that smells like honey - pick the snow?

Live free or die.

It's funny, isn't it? When you are young you just want to be old, and then later you wish you could go back to being a kid.

How can someone have the power to shatter you to dust--and also to make you feel so whole?

Fridays are the hardest in some ways: you’re so close to freedom.

Dystopian novels help people process their fears about what the future might look like; further, they usually show that there is always hope, even in the bleakest future.

And when it started to get dark you pointed to the sky, and told me there was a star for every thing you loved about me.

i think of all the thousands of billions of steps and missteps and chances and coincidences that have brought me here. Brought you here, and it feels like the biggest miracle in the world.

I love you. Remember. They cannot take it

I guess that’s just part of loving people: You have to give things up. Sometimes you even have to give them up.

Calm down. If I wanted to hurt you, I wouldn't need this knife to do it.

Congratulations to one of my favorite opponents and greatest rivals on returning to the WWE. The Rock is the BEST promo man of all time.

Don't divide the world into "them" and "us."

I'm attracted to any type of endeavor that gives me the chance to express what's going on inside me.

I mean maybe I was holding all the aces, but what was the game?

If you can throw $5 back in the crafty, we'll take it, because it just means another meal, which is nice.

I will lead my people by the hand along the road until their feet are sure and they know the way. Then they may choose for themselves and rule themselves. Then my work will be done.

Personal stories are the emotional glue that connects your audience to your message.

Don't ever be enamored by what something sells for. It's more important what you get to keep in your pocket.

I don't want there to always be this stigma of the "female" artist. "Oh, what does it feel like to be a female doing something?" That hurts me.