Strength means honoring your entire range of emotion, even your despair and heartbreak.

How anyone becomes herself/is a mystery.

Strength means...acknowledging each of those feelings, your questions and ideas and faith and terror, and meeting what comes with the full force of your heart.

I came to see that what constitutes strength is not just a muscle or will. It can also include the most desperate vulnerability, the saddest heartache, the lightest, sweetest laughter.

You are not broken. You break again and again because that's what breaking means. To be whole.

What if all possible pain was only the grief of truth?

Death and life are, for most of us, too complex to comprehend, but Alex Lemon can pretty casually, accurately, and marvelously correlate them to heavy metal and birthday cake.

I've been melted into something too easy to spill. I make more and more of myself in order to make more and more of the baby. He takes it, this making. And somehow he's made more of me, too.

What about when someone doesn't need a shoulder? What if they need the arms?

Degree of conformance to our other beliefs. One of our criteria for the assessment of explanations is coherence with our existing beliefs.

There are times in life to play it safe. I'm sure you can think of several. Music is not one of them.

Sometimes, we think faster than what we write.

I was the official wedding photographer at one of my best friends' weddings. Fortunately she was one of the most easygoing brides ever, so she made it easy for me.

Your ability to discipline yourself to set clear goals, and then to work toward them every day, will do more to guarantee your success than any other single factor.

I'm terrible in the mornings, but I'm always at my desk by 10 A.M.

Im certainly not squeamish at all. The countryside makes you very aware of birth and death.

All true knowledge contradicts common sense.

I'm not the president, so the president, has top secret clearance immediately. I don't. It takes time.