I used to dream about escaping my ordinary life, but my life was never ordinary. I had simply failed to notice how extraordinary it was.

Sometimes it's better not to look back.

If I'd kept my heart better armored, where would I be now?

Sometimes you just need to go through a door.

I was here for a reason. There was something I was meant not simply to be, but to do- and it wasn't to run or hide or give up the minute things seemed terrifying and impossible.

I liked this idea: that peculiarness wasn't a deficiency, but an abundance; that it wasn't we who lacked something normals had, but they who lacked peculiarness. That we were more, not less.

Strange, I thought, how you can be living your dreams and your nightmares at the very same time.

If you must fail ... fail spectacularly!

We cling to our fairy tales until the price for believing in them becomes too high.

There was a girl who could fly, a boy who had bees living inside him, a brother and sister who could lift boulders over their heads.

What I believe when it comes to big things in life, there are no accidents. Everything happens for a reason. You are here for a reason - and it's not to fail and die.

God will constantly send people to you who need the fruit of your ministry

Small moments we find so pointless can become cherished memories with time and the perspective that wisdom brings.

Ideology, politics and journalism, which luxuriate in failure, are impotent in the face of hope and joy.

Americans often have trouble enjoying the present moment.

We are so many and many within themselves travel to far islands but no one asks for their story.

How I Learned to Drive I think it's one of the great American plays. Its one of those plays that will be done forever, and it's timeless. I think it, for me, has so much heart and so much love.

I listened to country music my whole life. I started writing music when I was a teenager. It all came out country.

You don't compete with dollars, but you compete with ideas. Your only real borders are what you can imagine.

Let us understand: North Vietnam cannot defeat or humiliate the United States. Only Americans can do that.

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