Roses can grow in slums just as weeds can grow around mansions.

Sunsets, like childhood, are viewed with wonder not just because they are beautiful but because they are fleeting.

I have Tourettes syndrome.

The most difficult of decisions are often not the ones in which we cannot determine the correct course; rather the ones in which we are certain of the path but fear the journey.

Forgiveness does not require us to close our eyes but rather to truly open them.

So often the pain of our life is no more than a reminder to take our hand off the stove.

There are none so impoverished as those who do not acknowledge the abundance of their lives

such fickle days of love when pain and ecstasy share the same hour

The greatest shackles we bear in thislife are those forged by our own fears

Forgiveness is the key to the heart's shackles.

To choose the path is to choose the destination, but sometimes it seems that the path is under our feet even before we know we're walking.

Only the unprotected self can feel joy.

The most important thing is not to achieve success, but to keep it so that it would be stable.

Liberty is the right not to lie.

And if things always stayed the same, Scarlett, what would be the reason for bothering to draw breath?

I'm a huge Dirty Dancing fan. I feel like I should be reading [William] Shakespeare, but I'm watching Baby not be in a corner.

Nobody is going to be as bad for free thinking, right-minded individuals than George Bush.

In winter, I plot and plan. In spring, I move.

Youth is the time when hearts are large.

It doesn't matter where you come from. It's what you do when you get here.

There's a Mother's Day and there's a Father's Day, but there's no Children's Day. It would mean a lot. World peace.