Things don’t get better just because you want them to.

The stupid thing about anger is how people hurt you and then you let them keep hurting you by being angry about how they originally hurt you. It’s a vicious cycle.

No one can be everything you want them to be.

I'd rather be weird and happy than normal and miserable.

This body is yours. It is your home. The keeper of your soul. The resting place of your spirit. No one can ever take that away.

It’s unbelievable how you can affect someone else so deeply and never know.

If you see someone being bullied, make it stop. Why is that so hard for us to do?

My thing is that I'm in love with love. Actually, I'm in love with the possibility of true love. Which could be considered a major problem.

Sometimes in the midst of all your boy drama, you just need a cupcake.

Because if you take a risk, you just might find what you're looking for.

I want revenge, but I don't want to screw up my karma.

Then her heart opened wider than it ever had before, and all she saw before her, everywhere she looked, were people to love.

No more terrible disaster could befall your people than for them to fall into the hands of a Hero

I bleed and breathe Hawks. Even when I played for other teams I felt funny, because I was a Hawk.

Grace is something you can never get but only be given.

The Soul is repository of information that we gather during a lifetime.

Love and fear represent two different lenses through which to view the world. Which I choose to use will determine what I think I see.

While some mothers sing lullabies to their children, my mother read me poetry. And to this day, I associate my strongest and most insistent feelings with words lyrically organized on a page.

Politics inflame the passions in a way that few beloveds can match.

Plasma on the wall/Write my name on your heart like I'm Lucille Ball/But love changes, a thug changes/And best friends become strangers

That was the problem with the 'celibate' word because they don't consider for a moment that you'd rather not be, but you just are. I was never a sexual person.