I don't recommend washing your face. Because you might drown.

You are constantly changing & evolving through your experiences, how you interpret your experiences, and how you choose to do things in the future based on those experiences.

The single greatest gift you could ever give the world is to be exactly who you are.

Don't ever, ever, ever give up, because you're here for a reason, even if it's just to laugh at cats on the internet.

You are the most rare & majestic you there ever was and ever will be.

Make your face not look like your face by piling on like the heaviest makeup you can find and do it with some kind of brush that won't judge you.

In order to find out who you are, you will, at some point, have to feel really isolated, left out, different.

You become yourself, every single day of your life, through your choices and how you think.

There’s no cure for ugly, but you can make yourself into a human optical illusion.

One of the benefits of being you is: You know that the people who love you, love you for you. They don't love you for who they think you are or who you're pretending to be.

As weird and awful and terrible as it may seem to be yourself sometimes, it will always reward you.

A day should be your controlling and managing factor

Real life is never quite as interesting as the story told afterward.

We all look back at some time or other and wonder why we didn't listen to our instincts. Why did we hestiate? Why did we lose our dreams?

Bonobo discipline involves being schooled in a gentler, more playful fashion.

Early college high schools in North Carolina and across the country show us that challenge - not remediation - is an approach to education that works.

Justice is the sum of all moral duty.

The principal means of acquiring an ardent love of Christ are mental prayer, Communion, mortification, retirement.

I write every day. I don't have a writing schedule. I write when I feel like it. Fortunately I feel like it all the time. I am writing for hours.

Even victors are by victories undone.

When a Cat adopts you, and I am not superstitious at all I don't mean only Black cats there is nothing to be done about it except to put up with it and wait until the wind changes.