You realize that trying to keep your distance from me will not lessen my affection for you. All efforts to save me from you will fail.

Some tourists think Amsterdam is a city of sin, but in truth it is a city of freedom. And in freedom, most people find sin.

Amsterdam is like the rings of a tree: It gets older as you get closer to the center.

I feel like crying, so I must be crying, but it's impossible to tell because I'm underwater.

...And in freedom, most people find sin.

So I walked back to my room and collapsed on the bottom bunk, thinking that if people were rain, I was drizzle and she was a hurricane.

A taste so profound and complex that it can't even be compared to other tastes, only to emotions. Cheesy waffles, I was thinking, tastes like love without the fear of love's dissolution.

My thoughts are stars I cannot fathom into constellations.

The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.

All those paper people living in their paper houses, burning the future to stay warm.

I would always love Alaska Young, my crooked neighbor, with all my crooked heart.

Don't Settle for Mediocrity. Strive for Excellence

I am Grace.

We must take the money out of politics, and end psychopathic, self-destructive government and corporate madness.

I believe transparency in government is key to restoring our nation's faith in its elected leaders.

Christianity is a lifestyle. And being a Christian is more than a label.

I'm wearing clothes in my thoughts and dreams though. What am I wearing in yours?" she asked. "Me." Conversation between Mary Rose and Harrison in Julie Garwood's FOR THE ROSES

I can't just be the girl who sang 'I Kissed a Girl.' I have to leave a legacy.

This year [2015] has shown with painful clarity that our existing systems, approaches, and funding, are inadequate to the task at hand, and to the amount of human suffering that is ongoing.

If the rain spoils our picnic, but saves a farmer's crop, who are we to say it shouldn't rain?