I went to the entrance to the restroom, where the hallway did a sharp bend so nobody could peek into the girls' pee-palace.

Better to be strong than pretty and useless.

What you cannot escape, you must fight; what you cannot fight, you must endure.

What you can't run away from, you have to face

Are you listening, little bird?

Christophe, with the careful tone of an adult telling a kid not to pet the nice foaming-rabid pooch.

If something is visceral and unsettling for me, my job is to not look away, not to punk out. Sometimes the dark things come from places inside me, experiences Ive had, that need to be transformed.

That's the funny thing about old hurts- they just wait for new heartache to come along and then show up, just as sharp and horrible as the first day you woke up with the world changed all around you.

His eyebrows drew together. He was perilously close to unibrow; I guess nobody had held him down and administered a good plucking to the caterpillar climbing across his forehead.

The only place their voices were left was in my head. It was better than being alone but it was so, so lonely.

He stared at his hot chocolate like it held the secret to the universe.

At the end of the day, what matters is our faith in humanity...

If human society loses the value of justice, compassion, and honesty, the next generation will face greater difficulties and more suffering.

I desire no other evidence of the truth to Christianity than the Lord's Prayer.

American leadership is not simply a matter of going it alone and bearing all of the burden ourselves.

Passion is very important; if you don't love what you do then you're probably doing the wrong job.

I was lost til you were found, but I never knew how far down I was falling before I reached the bottom.

When I have a bad day, I dream about opening up a gelato stand on the streets of Sydney, Australia. Doesn't everyone have a random escape fantasy?

I am a friend to subordination, as most conducive to the happiness of society. There is a reciprocal pleasure in governing and being governed.

The Cincinnati Bengals look like the most complete team in the National Football League. I can’t wait to see how they match up against New England.

A great artist is not one who merely fits into a genre but one who defines the genre.