I think that sometimes quitting is exactly the right thing to do. Quitting something that's not working requires self-awareness and courage.

The only meaningful thing we can offer one another is love. Not advice, not questions about our choices, not suggestions for the future, just love.

If our goal is to be tolerant of people who are different than we are, then we really are aiming quite low. Traffic jams are to be tolerated. People are to be celebrated.

I still get very high and very low in life. Daily. But I've finally accepted the fact that sensitive is just how I was made, that I don't have to hide it and I don't have to fix it. I'm not broken.

Don't let yourself become so concerned with raising a good kid that you forget you already have one.

I think when your heart hurts this much it means you opened it wide once- and that is something to be proud of.

You are not a mess. You are a feely person in a messy world.

A good day is a good day. A bad day is a good story.

I was what they call a 'highly functional addict.' ... sometimes people who need help look nothing like people who need help.

It is a decision that compassion is more important than fear, than fitting in, than following the crowd.

Love manifests itself in loving attitudes and acts

One of the most compelling things about you is the energy you put forth—whether it is positive, negative, or neutral. And that is only the beginning.

I hit rock bottom, but thank God my bottom wasn't death.

While I was an addict, I didn't write anything. I didn't have the attention span or the will.

God judges what we give by what we keep.

Only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core.

Every day the choice is presented to us, to live up to the spirit that is in us, or deny it.

It isn't the things that happen to us in our lives that cause us to suffer, it's how we relate to the things that happen to us that causes us to suffer.

I didn't get into music to win awards. I love to play and the older I get the more I love it. And I love new things.

The stupid thing about anger is how people hurt you and then you let them keep hurting you by being angry about how they originally hurt you. It’s a vicious cycle.