Between work and your kids and your spouse or whatever situation you have in your life. I think balancing all of that seems to be a huge situation.

Sometimes the smallest step in the right direction ends up being the biggest step of your life.

I can't think of any better representation of beauty than someone who is unafraid to be herself.

I think a lot of people compare their insides to other people’s outsides.

I have a checkered past. I'll take any eyeliner that comes my way.

It doesn't matter what you do. It matters who you are.

You're only human. You live once and life is wonderful, so eat the damned red velvet cupcake.

I'm into grilled cheese. Grilled cheese makes me feel beautiful!

I was a good-looking kid. I never felt, like, dorky. I was just like, 'Yup, these are my braces. I've had them forever.'

We're always too skinny, or too fat. Too tall, or too short. We're shaming each other, and we're shaming ourselves, and it sucks.

I'm never saying never - I'm saying I'm not about to.

Scripture doesn’t speak of people who found God. Scripture speaks of people who walked with God.

Experience comes from failure and success comes from experience. Today's pain will bring tomorrow's gain.

Spiritual work is taxing work, and men are loath to do it. Praying, true praying, costs an outlay of serious attention and of time, which flesh and blood do not relish.

There aren't many things that are universally cool, and it's cool not to litter. I'd never do it.

Fascism itself can only be turned away if all those who are outraged by it show a commitment to social justice that equals the intensity of their indignation.

I love you Mark..." Courtney, PoR. I love you too Courtney..." Mark, PoR.

It is a great shame; most of our words are misused tools / which often still smell of the mud in which previous owners / desecrated them.

Math is the language of the universe. So the more equations you know, the more you can converse with the cosmos.

I'd like to quit thinking of the present as some minor insignificant preamble to something else.

As for my next book, I won't write it till it has grown heavy in my mind like a ripe pear; pendant, gravid, asking to be cut or it will fall.