Even if you're going to die, you might as well die pretty.

The world spins. We stumble on. It is enough.

I write about what I know; and I write about things that are new to me, and that I didn't know before.

The thing about love is that we come alive in bodies not our own.

Long ago, long ago. The simple things come back to us. They rest for a moment by our ribcages then suddenly reach in and twist our hearts a notch backward.

There are moments we return to, now and always. Family is like water - it has a memory of what it once filled, always trying to get back to the original stream.

There's a part of me that thinks perhaps we go on existing in a place even after we've left it.

We have to admire the world for not ending on us.

It was a silence that heard itself, awful and beautiful.

Give life long enough and it will solve all your problems, including the one of being alive.

Even if people laughed at the notion of goodness, if they found it sentimental, or nostalgic, it didn't matter -- it was none of those things, he said, and it had to be fought for.

I must be honest. I can only read so many paragraphs of a New York Times story before I puke.

We can't underestimate the value of silence. We need to create ourselves, need to spend time alone. If you don't, you risk not knowing yourself and not realizing your dreams.

Once you've tasted freedom, it stays in your heart and no one can take it. Then, you can be more powerful than a whole country.

A weak invention of the Enemy.

But I'm someone who the more afraid I am, the more I want to do it to get the fear over with.

I started doing the star turn and making a profit off it. Now I'm kind of one of them.

When you focus so much on the word, you tend to neglect the realm of silence.

If you hate yourself and your desires, well, you know, God is your desires and God is your self. As long as you hate God, you'll never realize God.

I don't use the phrase 'I love you' very often, but I say it every time I talk to my children.

Our march to freedom is irreversible. We must not allow fear to stand in our way.