Funny how certain things stay with you.

But how could anyone who's ever seen a summer - big explosion of green and skies lit up electric with splashy sunsets, a riot of flowers and wind that smells like honey - pick the snow?

Live free or die.

It's funny, isn't it? When you are young you just want to be old, and then later you wish you could go back to being a kid.

How can someone have the power to shatter you to dust--and also to make you feel so whole?

Fridays are the hardest in some ways: you’re so close to freedom.

Dystopian novels help people process their fears about what the future might look like; further, they usually show that there is always hope, even in the bleakest future.

And when it started to get dark you pointed to the sky, and told me there was a star for every thing you loved about me.

i think of all the thousands of billions of steps and missteps and chances and coincidences that have brought me here. Brought you here, and it feels like the biggest miracle in the world.

I love you. Remember. They cannot take it

I guess that’s just part of loving people: You have to give things up. Sometimes you even have to give them up.

Appreciate more to attract more, Feel more to understand more.Give away more to get more.Love more to live more.

While clothes may not make the woman, they certainly have a strong effect on her self-confidence, which, I believe, does make the woman.

If you see an injustice, and don’t move to right it when you have a chance, history won’t forget that, either.

As an elder of the Americas and of the rest of the planet, it is my responsibility to care for and protect, to the best of my ability, the young.

If I'm feeling hurt, sad, lonely, depressed, and then I shame myself for feeling that, then that's a black hole for me. I really have worked a lot to meet pain with both gratitude and gentleness.

chaos: it has no plural.

Writing, at least a craft and at its best an art, aspiring to the unique, is the most difficult to learn.

Some people want to be bank presidents. Other people want to rob banks.

Lots of people say it's the song. For me, it's not always the song - there's something bigger: the spirit of an artist.

Full oft we see Cold wisdom waiting on superfluous folly.