Every single kid in my group of friends at school was from a single-parent family.

My dream is to have a house on the beach, even just a little shack somewhere so I can wake up, have coffee, look at dolphins, be quiet and breathe the air.

If you're too in your head and you're not in the moment, life passes you by.

I've been vegetarian for so long now that I don't remember anything different, so it's easy for me to put meals together and make sure my family is eating healthy, too.

Take no moment for granted.

I laughed more in the hospital than I ever have in my life, making fun of all the weird things that were happening to me.

The person who I have my child with is going to be the right person.

I think maintaining relationships with my friends, my mother, my manager, they're all important.

I wasn't one to go out and buy a new car and stereo system and expensive clothes. My mom helped keep me grounded.

I was just shaking and then also immediately, I had to go into 'take-care-of-business-mode' which included a change to a more healthy diet.

Sometimes, you know, I cry. And sometimes I scream. And I get really angry. And I get really upset, you know, into wallowing in self-pity sometimes. And I think that it's all part of the healing.

Faith is always supposed to make it harder, not easier, to ignore the plight of our sisters and brothers. (p. 165)

I am ugly. I am black inside, rotting and putrid.

I am not ashamed to reply to you in my mother tongue, however imperfectly, and am glad to be able to show that my fatherland means more to me than anything else

Our disappointment sits between us.

.... When you have no voice, you don't exist

When you are an Anvill, hold you still; when you are a hammer, strike your fill.

Memory whispers someplace in that jumbled machinery.

You have your brush, you have your colors, you paint the paradise, then in you go.

I don't very often think I've done a good job. I don't like the majority of what I do. I shouldn't say I don't like it, but I'm not satisfied with almost everything that I do.

We too often love things and use people when we should be using things and loving people.