People love you for what they want to see in you, not for what you are. That's a sad thing to learn.

I know I wrote letters to people with no address on this earth, I know that you are dead. But I hear you. I hear all of you. We were here. Our lives matter.

Sometimes your music sounds like there’s too much inside you. Maybe even you couldn’t get it all out. Maybe that’s why you died. Like you exploded from the inside.

I don´t know anyone who has a perfect family to start with. And I think that´s why we make up our own. regular weirdos together. I feel that way about my friends.

Words can't be wood enough for a lot of things. But you know, I guess we have to try.

If beauty is truth, and truth is beauty, they are defined by each other, so how do we know the meaning of either?

There are a lot of human experiences that challenge the limits of our language.

For the shadows to stop growing. For people to stop being angry.

How could she just leave me here to live without her? I miss her so much. I love her. I want her to grow up and become who she was meant to be. I wanted her to grow up with me.

It seemed everyone knew their place in it, but I was in the mood where I would rather be alone and look a houseplants.

You learned right away that applause sounds like love.

We should be able to refuse enchanting proposals and opportunities, if they contradict God’s principles

Satan never wastes a fiery dart on an area covered in armor.

Use your imagination only on the future, never on the present or the past.

My head was dizzy, but what of that? Float, stupid wooden head, and care nothing for tomorrow.

God gave me the strength to see, and breathe, and talk.

Imprisoned professors taught imprisoned students free theology.

Forgiveness allows us to live in the sunlight of the present, not the darkness of the past. Forgiveness alone, of all our human actions, opens up the world to the miracle of infinite possibility.

Man has his will, but woman has her way.

All high beauty has a moral element in it.

I suspect anyway that the important things we learn we never remember because they become a part of us, we absorb them...we don't absorb multiplication tables.