In high school, my desire for friendship far outweighed my talent for it.

Step out from behind the words. When you're a writer you can imagine that the words speak for you and are you, but they're not. You are this living breathing bad hair day kind of person.

Have you ever watched a leaf leave a tree? It falls upward first, and then it drifts toward the ground, just as I find myself drifting towards you.

I believe friends enclose us, like a pair of parentheses. Each one knows us differently, each sustains us in a different way.

Words are the weights which hold our history in place.

You know how a river goes on and on? That's my love for you.

Nature is not the number-one mystery, I’ve learned. It’s the heart that takes top honors.

Forgiveness, which is the place that every story turns, the chance we give each other.

Nothing erodes [a mother's love]. It is not sand on a beach. It is the nuclear heart of things-hard as the rock of this earth.

We grow too old to lose old friends.

How do you know when an apology is true—when it means something, or can change something, or will last outside the moment?

When justice is prioritized by any leader at any level then to give justice to the citizenry will always be at the back of the mind of such a leader.

It does not matter where one comes from, one can achieve even the greatest of things in life.

This life is but a dream. A state of sleep but how unfortunate that man's eyes open only when they are about to be closed (forever).

I'd rather see folks doubt what's true than accept what isn't.

The humble soul is like the violet, which grows low, hangs the head downward, and hides itself with its own leaves.

~The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them ~

Better to be an optimist who gets disappointed than a pessimist who has no hope.

Everything is within walking distance, as long as you have time.

This liberty is all that I request.