First you find out what you have, Dad would say. Then you figure out how to make it work for what you need, 'cause you don't get what you want. You get just what you have and no more.

Better to be strong than pretty and useless.

What you cannot escape, you must fight; what you cannot fight, you must endure.

I went to the entrance to the restroom, where the hallway did a sharp bend so nobody could peek into the girls' pee-palace.

What you can't run away from, you have to face

Are you listening, little bird?

Christophe, with the careful tone of an adult telling a kid not to pet the nice foaming-rabid pooch.

If something is visceral and unsettling for me, my job is to not look away, not to punk out. Sometimes the dark things come from places inside me, experiences Ive had, that need to be transformed.

That's the funny thing about old hurts- they just wait for new heartache to come along and then show up, just as sharp and horrible as the first day you woke up with the world changed all around you.

His eyebrows drew together. He was perilously close to unibrow; I guess nobody had held him down and administered a good plucking to the caterpillar climbing across his forehead.

The only place their voices were left was in my head. It was better than being alone but it was so, so lonely.

Values come to you by what you hear.

Here are the values that I stand for: honesty, equality, kindness, compassion, treating people the way you want to be treated and helping those in need. To me, those are traditional values.

Thank you to everybody who voted for me, and to the British public for their encouragement over the last 17 years

That the sun shines tomorrow is a judgement that is as true as the contrary judgement.

You listen to people that love you and you listen to people that you trust. Most of all, you listen to yourself.

It's so fun to be in love... or so I've heard, The meaning has no feeling even though I understand the word...

Strong winds do not last all morning, hard rains do not last all day.

If people were super-optimistic about technology there would be no reason to be pessimistic about the future.

I hate people who say 'Just to play devil's advocate.'

Prayer and sacrifice can touch souls better than words.