I should let people in. If they leave, they leave. If I break, I break. It happens to everyone. Right?

It looked like the world was covered in a cobbler crust of brown sugar and cinnamon.

Sometimes you weren't supposed to share pain. Sometimes it was best just to deal with it alone.

Happiness is a risk. If you’re not a little scared, then you’re not doing it right.

Every life needs a little space. It leaves room for good things to enter it.

Don't let anyone see your vulnerable spots. Once they knew how to hurt you, they would do it again and again.

I needed to stop being what everyone thought I was.

The next morning dawned bright and sweet, like ribbon candy.

She looked like autumn, when leaves turned and fruit ripened.

You can't change where you come from, but you can change where you go from here. Just like a book. If you don't like the ending, you make up a new one.

She was so Southern that she cried tears that came straight from the Mississippi, and she always smelled faintly of cottonwood and peaches.

Sometimes by failing we find a better opportunity to win.

You can only start to experience bigger and better blessings in your life when you make up your mind to change the way that you have always done things.

As soon as people hear my voice and synthesizer together they hear Erasure.

I always say that I am very proud of the work that I did with the Rolling Stones and that I am also proud of what I have done with the Rhythm Kings.

The prospering of God's cause on earth depends upon his people thinking well.

Learning about the way people process information and their emotions is hugely helpful to my work.

The chief knowledge that's man on from reading books is the knowledge that very few of them are worth reading.

Loneliness is the first thing which God's eye named not good.

Nothing comes free. Nothing. Not even good, especially not good.

Be fearless in trying new things, whether they are physical, mental, or emotional, since being afraid can challenge you to go to the next level.