I saw the bruises, the burns, the cuts— I knew which ones had been done to you by someone you thought you could trust. Someone you thought loved you. I knew which ones you gave yourself.

This is for the kids who know that the worst kind of fear isn't the thing that makes you scream, but the one that steals your voice and keeps you silent.

I was the problem and the solution.

When I became too much myself, I had to change my life.

The pain will always be in you — but you will not always be in pain.

I loved you when I left you.

It is only in sorrow bad weather masters us in joy we face the storm and defy it.

Salvation, the prophets tell us, is preconditioned by repentance. The redeeming act of God waits upon man's initiative.

If you have a problem you can solve by throwing money at it, you don't have a very interesting problem.

Never, never is it possible to reach someone if you become angry or bitter only love and gentleness can do it. Maybe not this time but maybe the next or the hundredth time.

Education is soul crafting.

I think I'm careful. My goal is to try to stay away as much from opinion journalism as possible.

I started putting down my own pen and spending some time searching for the best songs out there possible. It doesn't matter if I wrote them or not.

It has been rumored that we have fired scud missiles into Kuwait. I am here now to tell you, we do not have any scud missiles and I don't know why they were fired into Kuwait.

I dont' like talking to horses because they are naysayers

It is prudence that first forsakes the wretched.