“You learn about equality in history and civics, but you find out life is not really like that.”

“When we were together, I loved you deeply and you gave me so much happiness I can never repay you.”

“I keep sailing on in this middle passage. I am sailing into the wind and the dark. But I am doing my best to keep my boat steady and my sails full.”

“If I were to say, 'God, why me?' about the bad things, then I should have said, 'God, why me?' about the good things that happened in my life.”

“Trust has to be earned, and should come only after the passage of time.”

“We must reach out our hand in friendship and dignity both to those who would befriend us and those who would be our enemy.”

“We are all looking for perfection in our lives, but the truth is, there is no perfect. Theres just better and worse. And for what we are in this world, not being perfect is the perfect thing.”

“Because I have an ideal to live up to. And I can't fall down in my own eyes!”

“The ideal is the enemy of the real.”