I was not a hypocrite, with one real face and several false ones. I had several faces because I was young and didn't know who I was or wanted to be.

People who shout joy from the rooftops are often the saddest of all.

A person's destiny often ends before his death.

Youth is a terrible thing: it is a stage trod by children in buskins and fancy costumes mouthing speeches they've memorized and fanatically believe but only half understand

Spending time with God is the greatest treasure.

When someone apologizes to you, be sure you know whether they’re sorry, or just scared.

Even if I'm hormonal and I feel like I've got a couple pounds of water weight, I will never starve myself, I will never, ever go on a diet.

To take responsibility for one's own actions, good and bad, is something else.

One of the things about grief - I wouldn't generalise, because everybody responds to tragedies in different ways - but I had a huge amount of energy.

Women think with their whole bodies

The one cool thing with getting older is that you can actively choose to just be an eccentric.

As they say in geology, time never fails, there is always enough of it, so I may say, criticism never fails.

even damnation is poisoned with rainbows.

Had Passion and Purity never encountered, Tenderness had never come into the world.