I believe in beauty. I believe in goodness. I believe in the power of turning: the other cheek, time, curve of the earth.

I think this is what we all want to hear: that we are not alone in hitting the bottom, and that it is possible to come out of that place courageous, beautiful, and strong.

This is the only advice I offer you. Pick the small thing, and carry it on. Let it change your life.

It is the capacity to feel consuming grief and pain and despair that also allows me to embrace love and joy and beauty with my whole heart. I must let it all in.

I know what it's like to sleep in fear, to starve myself to be worthy, to be ashamed of my voice, to want to sleep forever. To question why I deserve to live.

I name you today, heart fears. I am small, but you are smaller. You will not stop me. You have a voice, fears, and I must listen, but then I will open my heart. I will love you right to death.

I've had a lot of therapists, so I've had the opportunity to approach my fear in many different ways. I've faced it head on and sideways and tried to tiptoe up behind it.

The most amazing thing is that all my sorrows, all of my darkest moments, are becoming my gifts.

The shadow is dark and the woods are cold, but they are not endless. No matter how lost you are now, you are not lost forever. You are findable.Love just keeps on looking. Love is forever tries.

Everything we have, everything we are, is a gift. How can we judge and shame ourselves if this is true?

Love lights our darkness. It is forever tries.

Yes, if it is meant to be, it will be. In the meantime, create your own fate. Plan big and dream bigger.

Sure, I'd love to have children some day. But world domination comes first.

Good characters the reader cares about combined with an intriguing plot. Do those two and you've got it made.

If it was wrong to persecute heterosexuals in a homosexual society, then the reverse was wrong, too.

I wanted to have all the songs to be the strongest they could be and all the choruses to be catchy. One of those records you could put in your car and just drive and not have to change it.

I think we should make a closer link between domestic policy and an interventionist militaristic foreign policy.

We take foreigners to be incomplete Americans -- convinced that we must help and hasten their evolution.

The hip-hop that we grew up on is dead to a certain degree. I'm trying to keep it alive though, it's alive in the underground, but don't nobody know about it.

I don't have an assistant. I make a lot of people around me my slaves, but no assistant.

Oh for god's sake. I'll just carry you.