In terms of having high hopes that the level of consciousness will get higher and higher, yeah.

It seems like the chaos of this world is accelerating, but so is the beauty in the consciousness of more and more people.

As long as a person is breathing, there is hope for them.

Sometimes, out of really horrible things come really beautiful things.

I would have to say the person with whom I am most in love is definitely my son, Everly Bear. Although I'm his dad, I'm also his friend.

I had not had any drugs for 5 years but then I relapsed again. I have also smoked nearly everything. Every day it was a battle to recover, which I fought for my son and myself.

My days are whatever I want them to be. I don't have to go worry about chasing some chemical to make me feel OK for a minute, and then make me feel worse.

Every true artist is at war with the world.

I think art is inherently nonviolent and it actually occupies your mind with creation rather than destruction.

Just the kind of girl I liked—the weirdo in the bunch.

To be 26 years old and lose your left heart ventricle was probably the most dramatic thing that's ever happened to me in my life...

I tell you Schoonmaker she doesn't know what she has. That's the heart of it. She's like some wild creature who hasn't a clue the worth of its coat.

The stars were so simple when she was a kid, a smattering of glowing dust circling the Earth. She did not then know that each was a sun, most considerably more massive than the daylight one she knew.

An unexpected Blessing is an answer to a Prayer said, trusting that God will get to it, no matter how long it takes.

How to succeed: try hard enough. How to fail: Try too hard.

The less you think counterfactually, the less you experience stress. Stress, in this light, isn't a bad thing. It's simply a warning system telling you that your mind has lost touch with what's real.

All of my books come from pain.

I don't even know how to speak up for myself, because I don't really have a father who would give me the confidence or advice.

I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve.

I always try to do something for my husband that's completely selfless, and something that I hope will rock his world in some form or fashion.

Seducers are more dangerous enemies to the church than persecutors.