There are a lot of queers starved for entertainment from their own community.

Maybe if everyone walked around being in touch with each other's hidden pain it could work out and even be beautiful, but it doesn't feel safe to be the only compassionate person on the planet.

it just breaks / a man's heart, watching / a girl so involved with her life, / without him like that.

You try to be good, to be good and loving and nice and not hard, not tough, a sweet nice girl, not ugly, not full of ugliness, but people make it impossible.

How do you make a girl know she's beautiful? What is the system for that, what do you show her, how do you give her a new set of eyes and turn her face back to the mirror?

Maybe we could all take care of each other, I dreamed.

This is growing up, having to stomp out love, this is how people turn terrible.

you are right where you should be / now act like it

i wanted to try things, everything, especially things that are illegal and have a faint whiff of glamour.

Sophie knew about power animals, everyone did...Sophie thought she might be a cat, she liked cats a lot.

She was just so sad. Her whole face hung with it, like sadness was her personal gravity.

Now is your time. Make excellence your goal. Let success be your destiny.

Can't say it often enough - change your hair, change your life.

People are fond of saying this or that "changed my life." What they mean is something influenced their life. Only Jesus Christ--or WITSEC--can really change a life.

Abu-Yaqub al-Susi: the Sufi is 'One who does not care when something is taken from him, but who does not cease to seek for what he has not.

In this day and age, when you can use a machine or computer to simulate or emulate what people can do together, it still can't replace the magic of four people in a room playing.

Church - Come here to learn, go forth to serve.

I see all. I hear all. I know all. And I spend a great deal of time in the bathroom.

All over the planet, nature is being transformed into 'un-nature' at breakneck speed...My life is part of natural history. I long to know where that history came from and where it is going.

One bold inspiration choreographs a dance with promise.

The job of a leader today is not to create followers. It’s to create more leaders.