I think people were expecting me to be that kind of glamorous sexpot. So they were always, Wow you're not what I expected.

No one can take away your pain, so don't let anyone take away your happiness.

It's a life's journey of finding ourselves, finding our power, and living for yourself, not for everyone else.

I don't have to be an expert. I just have to care.

Chocolate is the first luxury. It has so many things wrapped up in it: Deliciusness in the moment, childhood memories, and that grin-inducing feeling of getting a reward for being good.

When I was in my early 20s, I had my hair permed. Bad Idea! It turned into total frizz. My advice to women is: if you have nice hair already, don't get a perm, leave your hair alone.

No one can tell you who you are and what you are made of, only you yourself know what you are made of, and only you yourself can do the work to become who you want to be.

If I can play a little part in the world's healing, and making it a better place than when I came, then I just thank God for that chance.

People who overcome their fears every day, without fanfare, without recognition. Quiet, everyday courage, that’s what I admire most.

Just smiling at someone walking down the street can make the person's day. It's all about paying it forward.

Sexual assault and domestic violence are difficult things to talk about. Talk about them anyway.

If the pull of the moon can disturb the ocean, why can’t the pull of planets cause a disturbance in the mind of creatures like us.

Sweetheart, I’m telling you, you love someone like that, you love them the right way, and no time would be enough. Doesn’t matter if you had thirty years, ” she tells me. “It wouldn’t be enough.

But the characteristic that is truly special about our species...[is] our ability to model our world and understand both it and where we fit into its overall scheme....

Alcohol, I had learned, was an eloquent if somewhat inaccurate interpreter. I had placed my trust that December night in glass after glass of it, eager not for drink but for a bit of talk.

No matter what the situation is...close your eyes and think of all the things you could be grateful for in your life right now.

Don't tell people they can do the impossible. Tell people that they can do the possible that they think is impossible.

I drank, I used drugs, I broke into houses, sniffed women's undergarments. I ate Benzedrex inhalers, jacked off for 18 hours at a pop, lived with my dad in a shitpad.

It is the spectators who make the pictures.

The Warrior of the Light concentrates on the small miracles of daily life.

Even a small match lit in a place of total darkness gives off a blinding light.