My scars show pain and suffering, but they also show my will to survive. They're part of my history that'll always be there.

You can see when someone's been hurt the way I was. It's obvious. Something changes in their eyes; pain becomes their center, even when they try to hide it.

I know you're upset, I know you're scared, but don't walk away.

I think you've got to get out whatever's hurting you through your art, so it doesn't twist you up inside.

I hate my body Hate what it remembers. Hate what it let him do.

If I don’t do what feels right to me, what I need and want to do, then am I really living?

I know I'm not to blame for what he did. And I know, too, that I am strong inside--stronger than I ever realized.

If I want to get out of here, I have to be the one to save myself.

I should know better than anyone--you can't tell who a person is just from his looks.

You don't deserve the anger you're turning on yourself. Your abuser's the one who does.

Hope is a verb with its shirtsleeves rolled up.

Unsettling emotions are capable of messing up the most beautiful minds in this world.

If we followed our feelings all the time we´d be like cats chasin´ their tails.

Don't fight with the pillow but lay down your head And kick every worriment out of the bed.

It is better not to say "lend." There is only giving.

A man builds a fine house and now he has a master and a task for life is to furnish watch show it and keep it in repair the rest of his life.

In Zen, poverty is voluntary, and considered not really as poverty so much as simplicity, freedom, unclutteredness.

The act of writing is an act of optimism. You would not take the trouble to do it if you felt that it didn't matter.

I can never forget that one of the most gifted, best educated nations in the world, of its own free will, surrendered its fate into the hands of a maniac.

Hillary Clinton's too risky for America.