I always dreamt of being a basketball player. A dream that only I believed in.

The key is to get to know people and trust them to be who they are. Instead, we trust people to be who we want them to be - and when they're not, we cry.

Every day I try to do breathing exercises, meditation, and yoga. These things sound awfully cliche, but they help me slow down and try to point to a truth.

I love dogs. They live in the moment and don't care about anything except affection and food. They're loyal and happy. Humans are just too damn complicated.

I lost my virginity when I was 14. And I haven't been able to find it.

Anxiety is part of creativity, the need to get something out, the need to be rid of something or to get in touch with something within.

I understand the self-loathing and the resentment, and the discipline that it takes to sit down in front of a typewriter or computer every single day, whether it's going well or not going well.

I may be learning guitar, but I'll never be able to sing.

I think the real heroic teachers are the ones who work with kids, like my mom and my sister do.

A dream is the mind's way of answering a question it hasn't yet figured out how to ask.

What makes me mad is arrogance, pretension, putting on airs.

I am tired of all my emotionsI am tired of all your emotions, I don't want you to leaveI know you can't stay, I need you as much as you need me, But you need to walk awayand I need to watch you leave~

To be optimistic is NOT a blind sentiment in regard to the reality of life

Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.

As the saying goes, "Smile and the world smiles with you, cry and you cry alone.” Smiling is a universal symbol of happiness that transcends language and communication challenges.

I think colors are miraculous. We live in a universe that is extremely creative and magical. We become happier as we appreciate these things in nature.

No one but a woman can help a man when he is in trouble of the heart.

If God wanted you to putt cross-handed, he would have made your left arm longer.

Haven't you ever wished that you could steal back just a few hours of your past?" she asked softly. "That's all I want... just a little taste of what might have been.

I'm not into younger men. A couple of years younger, maybe, but I'm not a cougar. I'm not a panther either.

There's nothing like a jolly good disaster to get people to start doing something.