Different is not deviant, no matter what the world may say. You have the moral obligation to love yourself.

Concealment makes the soul a swamp. Confession is how you drain it.

There is no wrong time to do the right thing.

The only way to vanquish cowardice is to brandish courage.

You don’t become a teacher to make a world of money. You become a teacher to make a world of difference.

Now you have to decide whether or not you want to be part of the bigotry that is Donald Trump. You have to decide whether you want to be part of the sexism and misogyny that is Donald Trump.

There are no 'come shoot me' clothes.

A lie is like a cat: you need to stop it before it gets out the door or it’s really hard to catch.

An illustration is a visual editorial - its just as nuanced. Everything that goes into it is a call you make: every color, every line weight, every angle.

Voter apathy is a civic abdication.

Co-opted convictions will always betray you.

Stars shine so they can see the world, not so the world can see them.

...we think so much about the present and so little about eternity that we turn eternity into nothing and nothing into eternity.

You are the illusion, be anything you want to be!

Love for God is the farthest reach of all stations, the sun of the highest degrees, and there is no station after that of love, except its fruit and its consequences.

We are not joining the coalition of the idiots. We are joining the coalition of the wise.

There's a unique bond of trust between readers and authors that I don't believe exists in any other art form; as a reader, I trust a novelist to give me his or her best effort, however flawed.

I do believe in forgiving and forgetting. There was a reason we were together. I just want to hold on to the good times.

What a frightening thing is the human, a mass of gauges and dials and registers, and we can only read a few and those perhaps not accurately.

A world technology means either a world government or world suicide.

You know, addressing my crazy by name doesn’t exactly help me stay sane,” I said. “Nothing can help you stay sane at this point, Mason,” said Becks. “That ship has sailed.