Life is too short, you know? You have to make the best of it. Do things most teenagers wouldn’t do.

It’s easy to be a Christian when you’re living the perfect life. It’s easy to live a perfect life when God seems to be showering you with blessings.

Hiding a wound can cause a serious infection without healing. It has to be exposed and washed. Sure, the cleansing may cause pain at first—but, in the end, it brings healing, as well as relief.

Who do those boys think they are, treating us as if we are their property, taking away our innocence?

Scars can actually be proof of a healing wound.

The moon is your reminder that God is never-changing, and you can always depend on Him to hear your prayers.

I wonder if only artists can feel peace like this—such a gentle, inconspicuous peace that an ordinary person might not even notice.

Did you ever know, dear, how much you took away with you when you left? You have stripped me even of my past, even of the things we never shared.

Every poet creates their own universe that looks more beautiful than reality.

As I am sure you know, when people say 'It's my pleasure,' they usually mean something along the lines of, 'There's nothing on Earth I would rather do less.' [...]

Ideas don't make you rich. The correct execution of ideas does.

I have said my philosophy - I'm a backyard philosopher, I guess - is that the dirtiest word in the English language is "retirement."

I've always been a performer. That's just what I know.

In Hanover Park they highlighted the terrible plight of backyard dwellers and the fact that year after year nothing has been done to help you: the hope and despair you all live with every day.

Industry jargon may not be a language your customer understands.

Never can a reforming sect survive if it is only reforming; the formative elements alone - the real impulse, that is, the principles - live on and on.

He was a humanist then, he's a humanist now, and to my mind John Carlos is an authentic American hero.