Don’t try to make life a mathematics problem with yourself in the center and everything coming out equal. When you’re good, bad things can still happen. And if you’re bad, you can still be lucky.

No other continent has endured such an unspeakably bizarre combination of foreign thievery and foreign goodwill.

A choir of seedlings arching their necks out of rotted tree stumps, sucking life out of death. I am the forest's conscience, but remember, the forest eats itself and lives forever.

Like kids who only ever get socks for Christmas, but still believe with all their hearts in Santa.

Misunderstanding is my cornerstone. It's everyone's, come to think of it. Illusions mistaken for truth are the pavement under our feet.

Listen. Slide the weight from your shoulders and move forward. You are afraid you might forget, but you never will. You will forgive and remember.

I’ve seen how you can’t learn anything when you’re trying to look like the smartest person in the room.

Sugar, it's no parade but you'll get down the street one way or another, so you'd just as well throw your shoulders back and pick up the pace.

Every life is different because you passed this way and touched history.

God doesn’t need to punish us. He just grants us a long enough life to punish ourselves.

If the Lord hasn't got a boyfriend lined up for me to marry, that's his business.

Love is a magnetic force, you can't see it, but it can pull you toward the beloved.

There is immense power when a group of people with similar interests gets together to work toward the same goals.

You have too take from each artist what works for you, and then create your own sound. You put different combinations in the mix and it becomes something unique in the end.

I wanted everything. What could you not want when you are brown and Indian-looking in a society in which the white aesthetic is praised as acceptable?

Inside many of us is a small old man who wants to get out.

I do not go to the gym. I do not train. I am not that careful about what I eat. I cannot give you any advice about keeping fit. The best advice I can give is choose your parents wisely.

Enormous morning, ponderous, meticulous; gray light streaking each bare branch, each single twig, along one side, making another tree, of glassy veins.

Fail big if you have to, but go down trying.

Investing a lot of time and money in external beauty and caring little about internal beauty.

As a kid, I thought John Denver was the perfect Prince Charming.