There are so many things I dare not say I have quietly stopped being me.

You only confuse hope with power once in life.

You don't always get to know what happened, or why things happened a certain way, but it always, always, goes deeper than any one thing.

To hell with what anyone thinks about your life, but you should know what you think about it.

Alcohol was like a fun cousin I visited every once in a while but never planned a trip around.

Make room for who you are by knowing who you’re not.

Only your life's work, driven by passion, will last forever.

People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.

As an academic, this was not the lifestyle I had planned for myself. Now I see myself everywhere.

She meant it as a compliment.

The thing that cracks me up is how these reality characters start out thrilled and excited just to be on television, and how they move to thinking they are as big as the Friends.

Foreign aid has been perfected so that it subsidizes corporate U.S. agriculture while preventing poor countries from developing profitable agriculture or feeding themselves.

How slight a chance may raise or sink a soul!

If you look at it that way, then you start thinking about the basic things, which are jobs not jails, and education not incarceration.

When I lie where shades of darkness Shall no more assail mine eyes.

The proper time to influence the character of a child is about a hundred years before he is born.