Not all broken things need to be fixed.

Attachment to the hurt is the root of all suffering.

It's not that life is good or bad. Life just is. It's how you handle the shitty situations that will determine whether it's good or bad.

I'm the most awesome person I know.

My heart has had love and lost love but it keeps on loving. That's just what hearts do.

Standing alone is better than standing with people who don't appreciate you.

People who want to sit around, star gaze and talk about their dreams are my favourite kind of people.

...but I am only one, and if I can make a difference, so can you...

It's not always about fixing what is broken. Sometimes it's about starting over and creating something new.

Make your desire for a better life stronger than your desire to stay in misery.

If you want a new life you need to hurry up and close the door on your old life.

Beauty is where the beheld butterfly disappears from sight.

Teen fiction should be about teenagers - no matter how many arguments there are about what YA lit should be, this seems like the one thing we can all agree on.

With Pearl Jam, everybody is so good at what they do, it's hard to get up the courage to say, Can I sing this part, or, I want to play guitar. I feel like I have more courage to do that.

As long as I take the responsibility of the choice, I have to make the choice that is as right as possible.

I want to be in a place where I have to have God in everything I do . . . where God is indispensable to me.

I think in any movie really the two most interesting parts are the protagonist and the antagonist.

Great things are possible only to strong souls and it's from the trivial events of daily life that strength is won.

The needs of mankind are universal. Our means of meeting them create the richness and diversity of the planet. The Montessori child should come to relish the texture of that diversity.

It really takes growing up to treasure the specialness of being different.

Our bailout of Detroit will be remembered as the equivalent of pouring billions of taxpayers' money into the mail-order catalogue business on the eve of the birth of eBay.