The heart is a sacred home.

Aim for the stars. You will sooner reach the moon.

What you think of me is none of my business.

We are what we think.

I believe in miracles.

Love is stronger than hate.

Asking is the beginning of receiving.

We are what we are.

God is the Creator of all things.

Daily dance uplift the soul to spiritual realms.

A revived spirit, a renewed soul.

A friend in power is a friend lost.

If we were perfect—if there were no remaining corruption in our hearts—there would be no fight. There would be no obstacles to overcome. We won’t fight for joy in heaven. But we are not there yet.

We have a name for the sum of grievances and compromises, this sheer normality of life lived among other people. We call it civilization. Culture, society, the workaday interactions of ordinary time.

Life is merely a series of moments and is in fact an unflinching serial killer, since it kills steadily each moment one after the other. Memory is the only survivor. (“Just for a moment”)

It is never safe to look into the future with eyes of fear.

For me, getting comfortable with being famous was hard - that whole side of it, the loss of anonymity, the loss of privacy. Giving up that part of your life and not having control of it.

All things are divine. And yet, we pick and choose among them what's appropriate.

In that moment, Blue was a little in love with all of them. Their magic. Their quest. Their awfulness and strangeness. Her raven boys.

Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath.

There are five issues that make a fist of a hand that can knock America out cold. They're lack of jobs, obesity, diabetes, homelessness, and lack of good education.