So when I say that I am a refugee, you must understand that there is no refuge.

A scar is never ugly. That is what the scar makers want us to think. A scar does not form on the dying. A scar means, I survived.

Looking after a very sick child was the Olympics of parenting.

A scar does not form on the dying. A scar means, I survived.

At some point you just have to turn around and face your life head on.

Our own personal brand of courage - in relationships, in conflict, in our principles ­ - is as unique as our fingerprints.

I’m telling you, trouble is like the ocean. It covers two thirds of the world.

I could not stop talking because now I had started my story, it wanted to be finished. We cannot choose where to start and stop. Our stories are the tellers of us.

We must see all scars as beauty. Okay? This will be our secret. Because take it from me, a scar does not form on the dying. A scar means, 'I survived'.

It is certainly impossible to imagine forgiving the enemy while their animus remains undefeated.

We were exiles from reality that summer. We were refugees from ourselves.

Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.

I force myself to think of anything but the one thing that I'm actually always thinking about. And that is so exhausting that I sleep more than I ever have.

To live [in the church] at the beck and call of marketing logic is to live in slavery.

We often act treacherously more from weakness than from a fixed motive.

The world was a world of dreaming souls who could not die.

Do not promote what you can't explain, simplify, and prove early.

Your money does not cause my poverty. Refusal to believe this is at the bottom of most bad economic thinking.

It’s disgusting that some focus on looks. I brought a beautiful child into this world.

I like to keep myself wrapped in layers of sleep and wait for the geraniums.