I want to kiss you so thoroughly that you lose your ability to stand.

Your transformation will begin the moment you stop worrying for someone rise to rescue you.

We're all in the human race. The question is, are you running toward your dreams or just away from your fears?

She was a tragic beauty. Sadness had left its fingerprints all over her face.

Birthing is never easy or without pain, be it a universe, a child, or a fresh start in life. Contraction precedes expansion. Darkness comes before dawn. Joy follows pain. This is the way of things.

Opening to love will always involve risk, but a heart safe from pain is one also locked to joy.

Sadness is a bruise on the skin of memory.

When sorrow's cup is filled up to the brim, the slightest touch of memory can cause tears to spill again.

Strangely incurious, her lovers from before. She has worlds within I'm longing to explore.

She had a very inconvenient heart. It always insisted on feeling things ever so deeply.

She thirsted for love, but found only a mirage. Some hearts are a desert you can die wandering in.

Who you are and what you believe in is your real home, the only home no one can take from you, the only home that will last.

Sometimes you have to give people a taste of their own medicine.

Some of my earlier songs are kind of more about mental illness.

Not everyone wants you all the time, Jace," he said. "Don't be ridiculous.

If you want to be good, all you've got to do is be good.

The less you can enjoy, the poorer, the scantier yourself - the more you can enjoy, the richer, the more vigorous.

the construction of a communist society would be completed 'in the main' by 1980

It is a deep-seated belief on the part of almost all Americans that their successes will be better assured as they help to build the success of others

Do not be afraid to be the saints of the new mellineum!

I think that anyone who's pushed to do the very best that they can is privileged. It's a luxury.