If I don’t do what feels right to me, what I need and want to do, then am I really living?

My scars show pain and suffering, but they also show my will to survive. They're part of my history that'll always be there.

You can see when someone's been hurt the way I was. It's obvious. Something changes in their eyes; pain becomes their center, even when they try to hide it.

I know you're upset, I know you're scared, but don't walk away.

I think you've got to get out whatever's hurting you through your art, so it doesn't twist you up inside.

I hate my body Hate what it remembers. Hate what it let him do.

I know I'm not to blame for what he did. And I know, too, that I am strong inside--stronger than I ever realized.

If I want to get out of here, I have to be the one to save myself.

I should know better than anyone--you can't tell who a person is just from his looks.

You don't deserve the anger you're turning on yourself. Your abuser's the one who does.

Although you hadn't asked why, it had less to do with you not noticing than with you not wanting to hear the answer.

Socialism Is For The People, Not The Socialist.

After I sold my screenplay adaptation of 'Rain Fall' to Sony Pictures, I had no more creative involvement.

Trying to be like my uncle, because I was an only child. He and my cousins were everything to me.

Walk in nature. Take the time to be still. Practicing arts, arranging flowers, doing some drawing, working on a computer, brings a sense of stillness into your life.

Those who never quote, in return are never quoted.

The quality of a man's mind can generally be judged by the size of his wastepaper basket.

You must address the historical and political differences in race and ethnicity in this country before you hold tenaciously to insubstantial, and unsubtantiated, beliefs.

Gratitude is a nice touch of beauty added last of all to the countenance. Giving a classic beauty, an angelic loveliness, to the character.

It is, of course, one of the miracles of science that the germs that used to be in our food have been replaced by poisons.