Everybody’s got rights. A man tied to a bed got rights. A man down in a dungeon got rights. A little screaming baby got rights. Yeah, you got rights. What you don’t got is power.

Animals don't think in terms of victims and villains, or good and bad, or evil, or shame.

I don't think that any family has a function. I just think that a family is. It just exists.

Shame doesn't exist in the animal kingdom. It's a human conception.

What we gotta do is, we gotta figure out a way to reverse gravity, so that we all fall upward, through the clouds and sky, all the way to Heaven.

I totally bristle against words like "dysfunction" or "abuse."

We hit and we kept on hitting; we were allowed to be what we were, frightened and vengeful — little animals, clawing at what we needed.

Awakening means you’ve come home to yourself, that consciousness shifted back to its original nature.

He continued to stare out the window. "I meant what I said before. You need to walk away, Pidge. God knows I can't walk away from you.

It is predictable that God will take care of us. What's unpredictable is how he will do it.

I hear people say, "It's not the quantity of time that's important; it's the quality." Well, technically that may be true, but quality doesn't happen in a hurry.

I love you. Most ardently.

I wanted to touch him, to tell him that even if everyone left everyone, I would never leave him, he talked and talked, his words fell through him, trying to find the floor to his sadness.

We live in an era of organized irresponsibility.

There is a difference between finding trouble in your path and going out of your way searching for it.” -Jacen Solo

There are no bystanders in life [...] Our humanity makes us each a part of something greater than ourselves.