When I'm with you, bells go off in my head like a moving truck that's backing up.

We make messes of our lives, but every now and then, we manage to do something that's exactly right. The challenge is figuring out which is which.

Is it a crime when you love someone so much that you can't stand the thought of them changing? Is it a crime when you love someone so much that you can't see clearly?

Suddenly this is all too hard. I am tired of putting up walls. I want someone with the strength - and the honesty - to break them down.

...when they look at me, I so badly want to be who they see.

Sometimes I think my whole life has been about holding on to you.

Memories aren't stored in the heart or the head or even the soul, if you ask me, but in the spaces between any given two people.

When your mother is made out of your dreams, anything real is bound to disappoint you.

In half hour my mother has managed to give me what my father couldn't: my past.

You can't hate someone until you know what it might be like to love them.

If you want to know someone's story, they have to tell it aloud. But every time, the telling is a little but different. It's new, even to me.

Really, there was only one sensible thing to do. Stay the course. Pray it through, day by day, minute by minute. The Lord had an answer and it would surely come. (p. 203)

We should ban banks from risk-taking because society is going to pay the price.

There is not a black America and a white America; a Latino America, an Asian America. There is the United States of America.

I have a thing with the camera. The lens is unconditional. It doesn't judge you.

I did not know it was possible to be so miserable and live but I am told that this is a common experience.

I'm a person who likes habit and knowing what my job is.

You learn something from everything you do. With every project I've ever done, I've always treated it like I'm still in school.

I am not here to speak against the Taliban. I'm here to speak up for the right of every child.

Let my heart be broken with the things that break God's heart.

There is no freedom without justice.