Sometimes it was hard to express how much you loved someone. You said the words, but you could never quite capture the depth of it. You could never quite hold someone tightly enough.

Every family has a story, and I love that those stories are etched in sand rather than granite. That way we can change them. We can bury the lies and embrace the truth. And we can move forward.

No matter how many people care about you, she thought, if you can't be open with them about who you truly are, you're still alone.

I'd been a terrific student. I hadn't wasted a moment of my time in school, and I knew plenty about healing the troubled mind. But no one had taught me a thing about healing the soul

Sometimes coloring outside the lines can cost you. Only you can figure out if it’s worth it.

You got dealt some crappy cards. But you're the one who has to decide how to play them.

And I knew I would nevr have that everything's-right-in-my-world feeling again.

It's just that I've learned that somebody's appearance doesn't always match what's going on inside him. You can't look at a guy's face and see his demons.

If you have a friend, a good friend, a woman you love, and you learn she’s done something abominable, do you stop loving her?

She felt happy these days, yet there was always an undercurrent of sadness just below the surface

You and me, " I said, "we both got the same kind of hurt inside us."She nodded, and suddenly, just like that, I knew I could trust her with my life.

I have a dream, humans were part of aliens on earth.I also dream, that some humans are really indigenous.

It's history as it should have happened. It's history made better.

Why he would agree to install an eight-by-eight-foot fish tank and then not fill it with a single dolphin made me want to burn his eyebrows off.

The meanings get lost and the teachings get tossed and you don't know what you're going to do next.

Old age is somewhat like dieting. Every day there is less of us to be observed.

We Have the Ability to Achieve, If We Master the Necessary Goodwill, a Common Global Society

I do love being solo because I can have more of my own creative input to every aspect of my career.

I couldn’t help it,” I said, knowing how lame that sounded. It was as bad as Angeline’s “it’s not my fault” mantra.

Youth passes like a dream.

Art is sexy! Art is money-sexy! Art is money-sexy-social-climbing-fantastic!