Like every girl, I felt amazing pressure to look like the popular girls, but no one told me the popular girls were all air brushed in magazines.

On my own I generally have very messy hair, wear jeans and sneakers.

Being part of the natural world reminds me that innocence isn't ever lost completely; we just need to maintain our goodness to regain it.

I love playing big rooms. There's nothing like it. It's a power trip.

In the end only kindness matters.

I may not be able to pull on the smallest of holds, but those I can pull on I can pull on all day long.

Live your life with love and bravery and you shall lead a life uncommon.

I consider myself a product of Alaska. The love and the debt that I feel to my home state, you always want your hometown to be the proudest of you.

I'm becoming more and more myself with time. I guess that's what grace is. The refinement of your soul through time.

Reality is what you believe it to be. It's what you put your thought and energy into, because your hands physically manifest thought. So your world becomes what you feel and what you think.

I don't see the world unless I see it in ink.

You have not lost if you have learned one new lesson.You have not lost if you have helped one new person.You have not lost if you have overcome one new obstacle.

I think photographers are too polite. There is not enough anger in photography it's pretty much trivialized.

The Conservative knows that to regard man as part of an undifferentiated mass is to consign him to ultimate slavery.

The trouble was, my feelings for Patch weren't harmless.

The guilt of newborns is immense.

The mortal race is far too weak not to grow dizzy on unwonted brights.

there is probably no such thing as an innocent question, at least not when a parent is doing the asking.

There is no worse material poverty, I am keen to stress, than the poverty which prevents people from earning their bread and deprives them of the dignity of work.

A sage is the instructor of a hundred ages.

The strongest and sweetest songs yet remain to be sung.