Change is inevitable. If you don’t seek it out, it will seek you out.

A broken heart is just the growing pains necessary so that you can love more completely when the real thing comes along.

A pure heart is superlatively rare and even more attractive.

If you live life so cautiously as to never fail, you end up failing at life itself.

The only valid faith today is disbelief.

The most purely free decision one can make—and thus, the highest order of spirit on Earth—is believing in something without evidential knowledge.

The choice to believe is yours. It’s the only thing that truly is.

Ironically, the only people anyone believes these days are the skeptics.

People aren't crazy, they’re just reacting normally to an abnormally crazy world.

You will never find the perfect person but you might be lucky enough to find someone who wants to be.

It seems the more we know, the less we believe.

In reality I said nothing at all, but I heard a murmur, something gone wrong with the silence, and I pricked up my ears, like an animal I imagine, which gives a start and pretends to be dead.

Most artists weren't famous until they died (mostly because once they'd died they couldn't create any more art, so it would make it more valuable).

You don't take a class you're thrown into motherhood and learn from experience.

Nothing has gotten me out of Philadelphia. I moved 20 minutes away from Philly. That's about it.

Everything involves a risk. No risk, no reward.

The reasons for legal intervention in favour of children apply not less strongly to the case of those unfortunate slaves and victims of the most brutal part of mankind - the lower animals.

Parts of the Voting Rights Act are due to expire next year if Congress doesn't extend them, including the section that guarantees that voting rights will be protected by the federal government.

There's something about having people around you giving you support that is - it's motivating, and once I got that support from people then I believed I could do anything.

The roles that push you out of your comfort zones are the ones in which you learn a great deal and really empower yourself.