No matter how unfamiliar my world becomes, I can always find my way home when I dance.

Bravery is an amazing and aggressive teacher. Its gives me the energy to dive into life, recover from disappointment, and mentally escape whatever locked door holds me in.

Suffering reminds us of our brokenness, our humanity. It disarms us of our self-absorption and magnifies our need for one another.

Suffering has a noble purpose.

Those who suffer suffer because hurt people hurt people, and busy people let it happen. So am I going to be busy or am I going to be brave?

When the statistics have a face, poverty becomes personal.

While many of us give to the hungry orphan, we have forgotten to love her.

My life is too valuable to remain shielded and protected behind the coziness and comfort of security.

It is about doing the most good with the only two hands I can control.

The road less traveled continues to beckon me onward, towards a journey of transformation and engagement.

Happiness is so nonsynonymous with joy or pleasure that it is not infrequently sought and felt in grief and deprivation.

Gods have become like us, ergo, we have become like gods. And to you, my unknown planetary readers, we will come to you, to make your life as divinely rational and exact as ours.

Imagination paints a charming view of the future, conveniently adapted to the demands of our current emotion.

It is unfortunate that for some, kindness is an unwarranted expenditure, compassion an avoidable weakness, and love an unnecessary gamble.

Peace produced by suppression is neither natural nor desirable.

We've turned into a whining society.

People who talk only of themselves think only of themselves.

We're going to have people come into our country, but they're going to come in legally, legally.

I am glad it's [California novel] resonated with people because, for me, most apocalyptic novels aren't scary, because they feel so very far off.

No matter what your choices are, you truly have no control about what people think of you.