There can be no joy without gratitude.

Sunsets, like childhood, are viewed with wonder not just because they are beautiful but because they are fleeting.

I have Tourettes syndrome.

The most difficult of decisions are often not the ones in which we cannot determine the correct course; rather the ones in which we are certain of the path but fear the journey.

Forgiveness does not require us to close our eyes but rather to truly open them.

So often the pain of our life is no more than a reminder to take our hand off the stove.

There are none so impoverished as those who do not acknowledge the abundance of their lives

such fickle days of love when pain and ecstasy share the same hour

The greatest shackles we bear in thislife are those forged by our own fears

Forgiveness is the key to the heart's shackles.

To choose the path is to choose the destination, but sometimes it seems that the path is under our feet even before we know we're walking.

It felt amazing to make visible my boundaries.The rumors dissipated, then changed. Eventually I turned down enough men that I became the girl who turned down men.

You can always count on the New York Times to cut your legs off.

Most of us here in the media are what I call infotainers...Rush Limbaugh is what I call a disinfotainer. He entertains by spreading disinformation.

I don't live for poetry. I live far more than anybody else does.

I knew it might put him in an awkward position that we had a discussion before finality has finally happened in this presidential race.

The Light of Christ illumines all.

I have one major problem with the Internet: It's full of liars.

How can I make a movie about the violence of the police if the police aren't going to let me film it?

To be ordinary is not a choice: It is the usual freedom of men without visions.

When I'm on the court, I picture myself as like a gladiator.