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

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.

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.

I attempted briefly to consecrate myself in the public library, believing every crack in my soul could be chinked with a book.

We gain freedom when we learn to overcome fears.

Every heart is a universe within its own galaxy that is ready to accommodate many others in her immeasurable depth.

Start thinking for yourself, ask 'why?' and even venture to say 'why should I?' and pretty soon you will have half the world at your throat for being a 'trouble maker'.

The rights of man are poor things beside the eyes of hungry children. Their hurts are keener than the soreness of injustice.

I dont think you should give away your name and face to something you dont believe 100-percent in.

Funny, how just when you think life can’t possibly get any worse it suddenly does.

I believe that you need to be the person you are and don't let anyone tell you otherwise. If you want something, go out and get it. Follow your dreams, and never give up!

He that does not know how wisely to meddle with public affairs in preaching the gospel, does not know how to preach the gospel.

If you make it a game, gamers will play it no matter what your motivation is in making it.

When you're young it's easy to confuse passion for love.