When someone's wounded, the first order of business is to stop the bleeding. You can figure out later how best to help them heal.

If you want to be reminded of the love of the Lord, just watch the sunrise.

You should never hate anyone, even your worst enemies. Everyone has something good about them. You have to find the redeeming quality and love the person for that.

Nobody's perfect. We're all just one step up from the beasts and one step down from the angels.

Horses were never wrong. They always did what they did for a reason, and it was up to you to figure it out.

One benefit of Summer was that each day we had more light to read by.

You can't cling to the side your whole life, that one lesson every parent needs to teach a child is "If you don't want to sink, you better figure out how to swim

Most important thing in life is learning how to fall.

But no matter how much planning you do, one tiny miscalculation, one moment of distraction, can end it all in an instant.

The fact is, you don't love me, and you haven't destroyed me. You don't have what it takes to do that.

Confidence doesn't come from thinking you're perfect or flawless. That's arrogance. Confidence comes from appreciating the beauty of your texture.

My secret to happiness? Keep sadness to yourself

A girl should want to look good for herself, not for boys.

I go about looking at horses and cattle. They eat grass make love work when they have to bear their young. I am sick with envy of them.

The most important people for me, at least in the last couple of years since I came out, are my supersecret trans friends and confidantes. I think I need to come up with a code name for this circle.

The ancient bitter opposition to improved methods [of production] on the ancient theory that it more than temporarily deprives men of employment... has no place in the gospel of American progress.

Life is a highway - the enjoyment you get depends on the lane you choose.

A fallen lighthouse is more dangerous than a reef.

To forget, or pretend to do so, to return a borrowed article, is the meanest sort of petty theft.

As soon as she hit the door we start blastin', I saw her brains hit the floor, raw laughin'.

Writing improves in direct ratio to the things we can keep out of it that shouldn't be there.