I like to tell young people - you know one in four children die by their own hands - no matter how bad things seem, just wait a day, wait a week. Life will turn around.

Nobody gets to pick their time to die, but living every day to the max is something we all get to do.

Pain and suffering are the soil of strength and courage.

None of us truly knows what we'll do when the circumstances become so overwhelming and complex that we can't even tell right from wrong.

For as long as the world spins and the earth is green with new wood, she will lie in this box and not in my arms.

You don't know me, but I know about you...I can't make you live longer. I can't stop you from hurting. But I can give you one wish, as someone did for me.

Who wants to be used? I love to read, so books are my main friends. They're always available, always friendly, and always interesting, and they never make me choose sides.

If I can't wait for you at the end of an aisle on your wedding day, I'll wait for you in heaven.

I wanted to write about the third world and had the opportunity to go live in the trenches, so to speak.

I am very privileged and honored when someone chooses to read a book, especially a book of mine.

But they can't know how the dark space inside me is growing. I lie to them. I can't get out of the dark hole. 'Peace is here' it whispers.

I just love to play and I get a chance to play with other musicians and I jump on it.

It all depends on you. If you want it to be different,it will be different. Don't look at the world with your eyes but with your heart.

Beauty in the flesh will continue to rule the world.

If you don't grow up by age 35, you don't have to.

Unless you hit your television with a sledgehammer, you're not going to be able to be an individual.

People aren't familiar with wheelchair sports. The only film crew in Athens for the Paralympics was the documentary crew.

The greatest thing that I have learned is probably the simplest thing any of us can learn: I am who I am.

Contrary to what people may say, there's no upper limit to stupidity.

To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war.

I'm convinced that what kids need today are parents - not buddies. They need someone who will exercise mature judgment.