My mother was an English teacher before she became a full-time mom, and a huge proponent of reading, so she made sure I was an early and vigorous reader.

Despair kinda smells like burnt hair. Sounds great, but smells lousy. Now fear... fear you can taste! Let's see, fear kinda tastes like... like peaches, peaches covered with fresh bone marrow

I have no clan, nor any rank. I am unique.

With good art, that's what happens - it comes directly out from inside of you almost instinctively.

I have noticed that the people who are late are often so much jollier than the people who have to wait for them.

Formal business situations are likely to be the least revealing because these are the times when all of us are most likely to have our ‘game faces' on.

Vulnerability is the portal to feeling. Feeling is the portal to strength.

I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.

Love is to be cherished because you're lucky to feel it even once in your life.

At the end of the spectrum when you get to that 12th step, when you have that spiritual awakening we make ourselves available to help other people.

But even in the Christian religion, much of its real meaning is hidden by words that are misleading and symbols that but few understand.

Let not the spirit wander while the words of prayer run on out of our mouth.

Obama might do well to remember that his fast rise from the Illinois state Senate was due in large part to an uncanny ability to make friends and find mentors.

I want to be happy because it is beneficial for me but also because I want to be a messenger of happiness to my friends and family.