It's not God who doesn't care, it's us

It's the children the world almost breaks who grow up to save it.

Every single person has at least one secret that would break your heart. If we could just remember this, I think there would be a lot more compassion and tolerance in the world.

Be wise enough not to be reckless, but brave enough to take great risks.

Religious people fear hell -- Spiritual people have walked thru it.

The children almost broken by the world become the adults most likely to change it.

Sometimes when we think we are keeping a secret, the secret is actually keeping us.

Every single person has at least one secret that would break your heart.

How I wish I could hug everyone and tell them that it's okay. It's okay to be scared and angry and hurt and selfish. It's part of being human.

Dear soulmate, I don't know who you are, where you live, or what you look like. But I pray for you every nite and I ask God to point you in my direction.

Stop lying. There isn't enough time left.

To see things as they really were--what an empoverishment!

My first struggle thought me that there is no such thing as luck, but the second made me believe you certainly need it sometimes.

We are all born artists. The nature generally doesn’t discriminate among newborns with respect to art. Yet most of us try very hard as we grow, without knowing, to stop being artists.

All of the details that most of us memorize in medical school - you don't have to learn those things. They're going to be in your computer.

Consciousness conceives, governs, constructs, and becomes the activity of the body.

There's a guy who won't be in contention. There's another one I don't have to worry about.

Publishing is, by its nature, about deadlines, and deadlines are toxic.

I do tend to eat healthily most of the time, but I don't restrict myself. I believe in eating anything and everything in moderation and doing some exercise.

The gap between verse and poetry is enormous. Between good poetry and good prose the gap is much narrower

The simplicity of your character makes you exquisitely incomprehensible to me.