I just want to write. It's like once I get those obsessive thoughts out of my head, once they're written down, they're somehow set free and I can move on.

The stupid thing about anger is how people hurt you and then you let them keep hurting you by being angry about how they originally hurt you. It’s a vicious cycle.

No one can be everything you want them to be.

I'd rather be weird and happy than normal and miserable.

This body is yours. It is your home. The keeper of your soul. The resting place of your spirit. No one can ever take that away.

It’s unbelievable how you can affect someone else so deeply and never know.

If you see someone being bullied, make it stop. Why is that so hard for us to do?

My thing is that I'm in love with love. Actually, I'm in love with the possibility of true love. Which could be considered a major problem.

Sometimes in the midst of all your boy drama, you just need a cupcake.

Because if you take a risk, you just might find what you're looking for.

I want revenge, but I don't want to screw up my karma.

Every life has a divine purpose and that is to be happy.

Suffering is given to you that you might open your eyes to the truth.

I don't know if my mother was a narcissist - or bi-polar or borderline. Those were words she tossed around over the years.

I think the most overused words in our vocabulary in the South are black and white.

There's no such thing as an original sin.

My kid was a great baseball player. I thought I had it made. Front-row seats at Yankee Stadium. Then he turned sixteen and wanted to be a rapper.

I want to say that, in general, when it works, open adoption is great.

Most people put a hat and glasses on to go incognito. I take them off.

In Canada, we have so much land, so much space, and so few people.

It bears repeating: you don't have to be good at everything.