Hands are the medium of expression, as eyes are the windows to the soul.

Compassion and pity are not the same: pity is looking down on someone, feeling sorry for them and offering nothing; compassion is seeing their pain and offering them understanding.

One breath at a time. One day at a time. Wake up, and be shredded. Cry for a while. Then stop crying and go about your day. You're not okay, but you're alive, and you will be okay, someday.

A friend is like a good bra: hard to find, comfortable, supportive, always lifts you up, makes you look better, never lets you down or leaves you hanging, and always close to your heart.

I can't promise you forever, because that's not long enough.

That's what courage is you know: being afraid and doing what you have to do anyway.

Just remember, you never know what's possible until you risk finding out.

Forgetting is the mind's way of helping you heal. Helping you move on.

It ain't the end of the world, you know. Just the end of what you knew.

All we can do is try, do our best. Give as much time as we have to give, one day at a time. One breath at a time

What can I say? I've never met a cupcake I didn't want to get to know better.

Let us never forget to pray. God lives. He is near. He is real. He is not only aware of us but cares for us. He is our Father. He is accessible to all who will seek Him.

It’s daunting to find the language so foreign, so distant, but also so thrilling. One is absolved of responsibility when the language is incomprehensible.

Even a liar tells a hundred truths to one lie; he has to, to make the lie good for anything.

The measure of a civilization is how it treats those at the dawn of life, the margins of life and the twilight of life.

Maybe I live in what is for me the wrong time.

A punk group is perfect because literally the lead singer doesn't play anything - he just sings and screams and jumps around; his body is his instrument.

Don't let anyone tell you what you ought to like.

It's almost therapeutic driving there and driving back (to North Carolina), with the time you get to think about things as well as create checklists.

I want to be in Star Wars. That would be amazing.

Now it's a war on women; tomorrow it's going to be a war on left-handed Irishmen or something like that.