Still shaking, in the pew, I understood that it isn't the dead we cry for. We cry for ourselves, and I didn't deserve my own pity.

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.

You are giving me words to write a song and that's even better than butterflies.

It is unnecessary to spoil your precious involvements with a person with some word. We cannot name and express every human relationship or feeling, and we confine our involvements by naming them.

Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.

The real problem with all drugs is that they work. Fantastically. They're great, right up until the moment they kill you.

The formation of different languages and of distinct species and the proofs that both have been developed through a gradual process, are curiously parallel.

The digital revolution has changed the way we do things because you're not under that pressure that film is precious and film is expensive.

From three to four, he planned to stand perfectly still and think of what it was like to be alive.

Maybe tomorrow we'll all wear 42, so nobody can tell us apart.

They used to take your horse and if they were caught they got hung for it. Now they take your car, and if they are caught it's a miracle.

To change is difficult. Not to change is fatal.