“If something doesn't work exactly right, or maybe needs some special treatment, you don't just throw it away. Everything can't be fully operational all the time. Sometimes, we need to have the pati...”

“You should never be surprised when someone treats you with respect, you should expect it.”

“As Isabel acted out her date, both of them laughing, I stayed in the kitchen, out of sight, and pretended she was telling me, too. And that, for once, I was part of this hidden language of laughter...”

“I knew from experience that no matter how much you turn things in your head, trying to make sense of them, some people just defy all logic.”

“for once, you believed in yourself. you believed you were beautiful and so did the rest of the world.”

“Believe in yourself up here and it will make you stronger than you could ever imagine.”

“I don't think that God says, "Go to church and pray all day and everything will be fine." No. For me God says, "Go out and make the changes that need to be made, and I'll be there to help you.”

“Our work is not about transcending this world to get to a better place; our work is to be fully present here; to heal ourselves, and our planet in the spirit of service and compassion.”

“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.”

“I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat. We have before us an ordeal of the most grievous kind. We have before us many, many long months of struggle and of suffering. You ask, what...”

“His pen spoke more to her than he ever did.In the war of words, some are unwritten and some are unspoken.”

“How might I get over this? How would I be able to overlook the way he used to be with me? How could I overlook that his fingers touched my indiscernible soul before it twisted my nipples? How might...”

“When eagles are silent, parrots begin to chatter.”

“The best way to predict future is to create it." Abraham Lincoln”

“You are essentially who you create yourself to be and all that occurs in your life is the result of your own making.”