Wasted laughter. Wasted tears. Wasted love. That's how badly you felt. And yet, is love ever truly wasted?

It is our wounds that create in us a desire to reach for miracles. The fulfillment of such miracles depends on whether we let our wounds pull us down or lift us up towards our dreams.

Let go of what you can no longer keep. Protect what's still worth keeping. Believe in love most of all.

There will always be a pain in 'goodbyes'. No matter how much we seem to understand everything, it breaks our hearts to ever see anything beautiful die.

Saying goodbye doesn't mean you need to forget, It doesn't mean you were never loved.It doesn't mean you're weak, It doesn't mean you didn't try hard enough.

We are fragile beings, yet we often act as though we couldn't be hurt, and as though we couldn't hurt other people.

God's breath is like a fresh wind that renews us. Frail and weak as we are, we have hope. We find healing.

To love is to risk, and to risk is to lose sometimes, to get hurt. But let it not deter you from loving again, from being happy.

We hurt so much because we have lost a part of ourselves. If we have loved much, we must have given much also, and when everything's over, we feel as though we have lost everything.

A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.

In a totally dysfunctional society, the profession of a writer would not exist.

Christ must be rediscovered perpetually.

I thought [ as a kid], "Maybe I don't want to start a punk band necessarily. I just want to learn to be a great songwriter," and got really into trying to figure out how that could be possible.

I don't have the hard everyday life that so many working mothers face.

Passion lies between one mark and the next, and also within all of them.

I am beyond logic and rationality.

Abortion is inherently different from other medical procedures, because no other procedure involves the purposeful termination of a potential life.

My indulgences are Skittles and rum raisin ice cream.

People think that because of my act that I must have a really busy mind and I must be driven. I really am not. I quite like going outside and looking at spiders on a hedge in my garden and stuff.