Wishes are slippery things. You have to be very specific or you can get exactly what you wished for and still end up with nothing.

It's easy to remember only the good parts of people if you never see them. Real people are much more complicated.

Looking closer can make something beautiful

Not everything worth keeping has to be useful.

Why can't the world be simpler, like it is for guinea pigs? They only have a few rules: Crying will get you attention. If it fits in your mouth, it's food. Scream if you don't get your share.

...choosing words is harder than I thought.

Just because other people think something, that doesn't make it true. Maybe there's some truth in that, but it's unsatisfying, bitter-tasting truth.

Some people think they know who you are, when really they don't.

Sometimes people don't answer because they didn't hear you, Other times it's because they don't want to hear you!

I wish everyone had the same chances," I say. "Because it stinks a big one that they don't." - Catherine

When someone is upset, it’s not a good time to bring up your own problems.

Your smile is your logo, your personality is your business card, how you leave others feeling after having an experience with you becomes your trademark.

Being good is commendable, but only when it is combined with doing good is it useful

You don't have to give birth to someone to have a family. We're all family - an extended family.

Never let a fool kiss you, or a kiss fool you.

[Hawthorne''s] pious blame is a chuckle of praise all the while.

In some cases, in order to protect global issues some sacrifice for national interest is worth it in the long run. Global warming, these things, they suffer everybody.

You have many years to live do things you will be proud to remember when you're old.

College was a blast. My three years of college were the best years of my life.

If Christ's message could be distilled down to one line, that line would have to do with kindness and inclusiveness, not rules and divisiveness.

I sort of feel like that's the most revolutionary thing we can do with our narrative for me as Black people is to show that we are just like you.