You're asking me to look into the future and give you guarantees. Magic isn't a recipe for baking cake.

Hope is possibly the only inexhaustible resource on earth.

You can’t have relationships if you’re not willing to open yourself up and lean on people as much as you want them to lean on you.

Pushing through fear was what eventually set you free.

The hardest part of changing things is knowing how much needs changing,

Family is always a mirror. You can hide from other people, you can even hide from yourself, but your family is going to reflect what you’re doing right back at you.

Fighting to protect the people you cared for was one thing. Trusting someone you loved to fight for themselves took a different kind of strength and bravery.

Learning to love yourself is easier when you have someone to show you how.

Ultimately, wasn’t dance a whispered question? A story told through the position of a foot, the tilt of a head, the touch of a hand, the brush of an eye. A rite of passage. A claiming.

Which was worse, telling a person you loved them when you didn’t mean it? Or loving them and never telling them at all?

Friends are medicine for a wounded heart and vitamins for a hopeful soul.

Praying is not telling God what to do. It’s trusting that God knows what to do.

Every morning I read the obituaries. If it ain't there I make myself a cup of tea and carry on like I have the past century or so.

I mean, it's impossible to fake anything if you've already seen the other person in a way they'd never choose for you to. You can't go back from that.

I think I have a pugnacious style. My style is not pretty. I don't use words like "amber" or "opaque."

Painting is a strange business.

There's nothing wrong with making mistakes, just don't make the same ones. We don't want to duplicate them.

It started out slowly, it's coming on fast. I got a feeling it's gonna last. Timber, I'm falling in love.

The sacred lives beyond labels and judgment, in the wood-of-no-names.

W. C. Fields, a lifetime agnostic, was discovered reading a Bible on his deathbed. ''I'm looking for a loop-hole,'' he explained.