Learning to love yourself is easier when you have someone to show you how.

Hope is possibly the only inexhaustible resource on earth.

You can’t have relationships if you’re not willing to open yourself up and lean on people as much as you want them to lean on you.

Pushing through fear was what eventually set you free.

The hardest part of changing things is knowing how much needs changing,

Family is always a mirror. You can hide from other people, you can even hide from yourself, but your family is going to reflect what you’re doing right back at you.

You're asking me to look into the future and give you guarantees. Magic isn't a recipe for baking cake.

Fighting to protect the people you cared for was one thing. Trusting someone you loved to fight for themselves took a different kind of strength and bravery.

Ultimately, wasn’t dance a whispered question? A story told through the position of a foot, the tilt of a head, the touch of a hand, the brush of an eye. A rite of passage. A claiming.

Which was worse, telling a person you loved them when you didn’t mean it? Or loving them and never telling them at all?

Children must early learn the the beauty of generosity. They are taught to give what they prize most, that they may taste the happiness of giving.

He stirred my soul in the most subtle way and the story between us wrote itself.

Classic means standard as opposed to Romantic: form before meaning as opposed to meaning before form. It grows from inside out while Romantic grows from outside in.

A winner never quits and a quitter never wins.

Once our country is fully engulfed in a debt crisis, our economy will be torn apart, and every American will be a victim of the federal government's failure to prevent this disaster.

We pulled them [ Bink & Gollie] out of our feeble little brains.

I think writing would have happened to me anyway, somehow. Differently, but it still would have happened.

Having the ability to get and gain respect through your work is great but you have to be careful not to get carried away.

Only this I know, That one celestial father gives to all.

Of course I'm not a racist, but I'm certainly right wing, there's no question about that.