When compared side by side, my days can barely be distinguished from one another. The only difference is what I do after work and with whom I do it.

t may not be the life you imagined, but it’s your life. You came here for a reason. Is it time for you to go and begin again?

Cause and effect are rarely directly related. Justice has a mind of her own.

You earn brotherhood—the purest friendship, trust, love, whatever you want to call it—moment by moment through how you treat others.

Silence has built walls, walls that I attempt to break by pedaling faster, only to be imprisoned a hundred feet down the road.

I'm learning quickly, once you quit one thing, it gets easier and easier just to leave situations rather than deal with shit.

Questions from earlier circle like buzzards. Am I running away or moving forward?

The waves splash against my face, carrying a message: Welcome, you belong here.

To exist here, I’ll have to become skilled in saying no—an art in which I was once well accomplished, but one I no longer care to practice.

Nothing worse than someone who goes to the dance, is excited to dance, dances all night, and then complains all the next day about his feet being sore.

I never get used to the faces--wide-eyed and full of possibility--staring bad at me.

When you are lonely for a while don't get restless, if you had born alone, you are going to die alone then for sometime you can certainly live alone.

Maybe I could dole out the truth in tiny pieces that, once assembled, would make a picture that resembled a reality in which I hadn’t done anything wrong.

Even now it comes as a shock if by chance I notice in the street a face resembling someone I know however slightly, and I am at once seized by a shivering violent enough to make me dizzy.

The weak-minded choose to hate, " she said. "It's the least painful thing to do, isn't it?

The church that can't worship must be entertained. And leaders who can't lead a church to worship must provide the entertainment.

Your reasoning is excellent, it's only your basic assumptions that are wrong.

Building a set is like building a place, but it's a temporary place, because sets usually get torn down. Kind of unfortunate.

Even bad results teach you something, and you can learn your lessons and get better.

No one can estimate the power of authority among poor and uneducated people in a world whose problems confuse even the wisest.

Transformation comes more from pursuing profound questions than seeking practical answers.