People from the most horrendous of childhoods can have good lives, but it comes down to a very seemingly simple word. 'Choice.'

People with integrity do what they say they are going to do. Others have excuses.

Children are our second chance to have a great parent-child relationship.

The reward for doing right is mostly an internal phenomenon: self-respect, dignity, integrity, and self-esteem.

Don't waste my time- I'm not stupid, and I'm not gullible.

It doesn't matter how we were raised. We become the person we choose to be.

A woman should always be more concerned with standing up for what is right than making sure everyone 'likes' her.

My life is what a salmon must feel like. They are always going upstream, against the current.

People get mad at me very easily. The magnitude of your anger toward me is the measure of how much you know you are doing wrong.

We, as human beings, should wish to be loved and embraced for our character, respected and relied on for our courage, and trusted for our conscience.

You've touched people and known it. You've touched people and never may know it. Either way, you have something to give. It is in giving to one another that each of our lives becomes meaningful.

I would be most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.

There’s a difference between a miracle, and something impossible. A miracle is not impossible—just merely unlikely.

Never ignore the feelings that don't seem to make sense.

His gaze was like that of the moon, and had a dark side which he never showed to anybody.

I remember, in my senior year, one of my teachers taking me aside and saying: 'You look really tired.' This was when I was being a bad kid and she knew that something was wrong.

It's like, 'Sorry I passed you an STD but I really enjoy your quirky web presence.'

I don't think I can tell any stories about how I lived in a van in Alaska. I grew up in the suburbs, I even had my own room. We weren't poor. Everything was very normal.

Everything that is seen and everything that is unseen is God.

People change all the time whether you like it or not.

In a murderous time/the heart breaks and breaks/and lives by breaking.