I had no words to give him. No explanation. I didn’t understand it, myself. It scared me, but then so do roller coasters, and I ride them anyway, too.

But the problem with looking back when you should be walking ahead is that you usually end up walking into something that hurts.

But sometimes it's the sunshine that frightens us more than the big black shadows.

When you find someone who makes you smile and laugh, when you find someone who makes you feel safe…you shouldn’t let that person go just because you’re afraid.

I waited for a long time and there was nothing but the pain of wanting something I couldn't seem to find.

You don’t have to be sad to miss someone and wish they were still in your life.

Good things, by their nature, are fleeting. It’s those that bring us grief that linger.

Love is always real, even when it doesn’t last.

All men have the stars, but they are not the same things for different people.

Jealousy smells like the water in the bottom of a flower vase after the flowers have died.

When everything changes we learn who we really are. What’s really important. What we want most. We discover the truth in moments of disarray.

Lord till I reach that blissful shore No privilege so dear shall be As thus my inmost soul to pour In prayer to thee.

Cutting meat out of your diet is the best thing you can do for animals and your own health.

Whatever coast he's on, a man should be himself. I don't write in any particular idiom, I write Charles Mingus.

The reason we race isn't so much to beat each other... but to be with each other.

It’s precisely because of the pain, the we can get the feeling, through this process, of really being alive—or at least a partial sense of it.

I love you. They can't take it away.

F. Scott Fitzgerald thought that prolonging his adolescence would protect his talent.

Now that other people have my works, it's really important to me that what they have has longevity.

That night I dreamed of turduckens.

I only sing in my church choir. Except the other night, I stole the show at karaoke night.