Focus is important. Focus on those parts of yourself that are working. Look at yourself as someone whose body is in the process of healing. Concentrate on the positive parts.

I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.

We're like licorice. Not everybody likes licorice, but the people who like licorice really like licorice.

You ain't gonna learn what you don't wanna know.

Somebody has to do something, and it's just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.

Truth is something you stumble into when you think you're going someplace else.

A true friend is the one who holds your hand and touches your heart.

You don't want to be the best at what you do, you want to be the only one.

Nothing left to do but smile.

Nobody deserves your tears, but whoever deserves them will not make you cry.

What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.

Sometimes, you have to shot block a friend's prayer because she's asking God to bless an obviously bad dating relationship.

To eat the forbidden is to disobey the law of God

I love you even when you're sick and look disgusting.

The majority does not rule in America, but the minority shouldn't hijack it. And it's because we're afraid. They have isolated us and made us feel as though we're alone. We're not.

Global warming has melted the polar ice caps, raised the levels of the oceans and flooded the earth's great cities. Despite its evident prosperity, New Jersey is scarcely Utopia.

Trying to keep up with health advice can feel like surfing the Net for weather forecasts: what you find is always changing, often contradictory and rarely encouraging.

All of music is connected, but a lot of people don't see it that way

Democracy is moral before it is political.

My non-co-operation is a token of my earnest longing for real heart co-operation in the place of co-operation falsely so called.

For he that feeds men serveth few; He serves all who dares be true.