I know some people need counseling but not everyone can afford it.

When you hit rock bottom, you have nowhere to go but up.

At 3, I played an innocent game of doctor, minus the stethoscope and medicine bag.

To my abusers: I forgive you.

Those that are the hardest to love, need it the most.

When you get knocked down you get knocked down in Round 1 of life, there's Round 2.

My spiritual high naturally dissipated. At some point you've got to come out of the clouds and live real life. Again, it's just like falling in love. The feeling of euphoria is only temporary.

I really want to help people. I really want to give somebody that hope that they need to keep going.

It's hard to be vulnerable in front of the whole world because everyone's a critic.

Oh my God ... YOU are real. Oh my God ... You ARE real. OH MY GOD ... You are REAL! Oh my God ... You're really real!

No matter what projects I'm taking on, I want to (do) things to help other people.

All life is in vain, for Death makes a nonsense of pain.

If we were logical the future would be bleak indeed. But we are more than logical. We are human beings and we have faith and we have hope and we can work.

Motherhood is the strangest thing, it can be like being one's own Trojan horse.

I graduated from college and went on one job interview and was laughing in my own head because I wouldn't hire me.

Try to let what is unfair teach you.

We like to think of life as a constant ... Yet it can be ended in a heartbeat.

Free people will set the course of history.

Fine, than I will not have to blame you for killing my friends with your stupidity. -Haymitch

What a great favor God does to those He places in the company of good people!

The author always loads his dice, but he must never let the reader see that he has done so.