Also, I sort of let my appearance go, to the point where I was maybe ten to seventy pounds overweight.

If clouds are blocking the sun, there will always be a silver lining that reminds me to keep on trying.

You're different. And I'm different too. Different is good. But different is hard. Believe me, I know.

You need to make time for family no matter what happens in your life.

Let me tell ya. You gotta pay attention to signs. When life reaches out with a moment like this it's a sin if you don't reach back... I'm telling you.

The problem with the stigma around mental health is really about the stories that we tell ourselves as a society. What is normal? That's just a story that we tell ourselves.

Tiffany and I are great friends, and I appreciate all that she is doing for me now. But she is not you. I still love you, Nikki. And you can’t control or alter true love.

Fly! There's a lot of sky out there for brave birds.

I opened up to you and you judge me

Life is not a PG feel-good movie. Real life often ends badly.

Life is not a PG feel-good movie. Real life often ends badly. Literature tries to document this reality, while showing us it is still possible for us to endure nobly.

Take your ego out of your story.

One uses power by grasping it lightly. To grasp too strongly is to be taken over by power, and thus to become its victim.

The average person's ear weighs what you are, not what you were.

Friends don't need the intervention of a third party. Friendship's a voluntary thing.

The New York art world readily proves people wrong. Just when folks say that things stink and flibbertigibbet critics wish the worst on us all because we're not pure enough, good omens appear.

It's a big thing to feel like you're doing something that's actually affecting people.

Why should anybody want to save the human race, or damn it either? Does God want its society? Does Satan?

Ten minutes of genuine belly laughter had an anesthetic effect and would give me at least two hours of pain-free sleep.

Health care's like any other product or service: if the consumer is in charge of spending his money on it, then the market will make sure that it is affordable.

People will vote for someone who [they perceive] is strong and wrong before they will vote for someone who appears weak but is right.