I guess I'll never measure up to anyone's expectations. I surely don't measure up to what I'd like to be.

How is it possible for me to be so miserable and embarrassed and humiliated and beaten an function still talk and smile and concentrate?

Maybe the new me will be different.

Why is life so difficult? Why can't we be just ourselves and have everyone accept us the way we are?

I’m really cracking. No, I’m beyond cracking. I’m shattered. I’m lost. I’m fragmented.

They have accepted me as an individual, as a personality, as an entity. I belong! I am important! I am somebody!

I’ve got to sleep. Sleep is my only way to escape.

The voice of every kid hooked on drugs, alcohol or the occult joins the sad chorus "Not me! I didn't think it could ever happen to me. I was sure I could handle it.

Alone. The saddest word in the world.

I'm not really sure which parts of myself are real and which parts are things I've gotten from books.

She didn't know whether she was running away from something or running to something, but she admitted that deep in her heart she wanted to go home.

Memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theatre. It is the medium of past experience, as the ground is the medium in which dead cities lie interred.

May you have the courage to choose love over hate.

He's wild, you know. Not like a tame lion.

Everything bad that's ever happened in my life I've seen an outcome that's positive later on.

Between my head and my hand, there is always the face of death.

A fellow ought to save a few of the long evenings he spends with his girl till after they're married.

No use in waiting, we can all work hard to bring about changes.

Parents sometimes forget that after the child emerges from the utter physical and mental helplessness of infancy, it is becoming more and more an individual.

It's my view that any conservative who loves his country has to be extremely concerned.

Bapu Gandhi said, ‘All religions are true.’ I just want to love God.