The pain will always be in you — but you will not always be in pain.

This is for the kids who know that the worst kind of fear isn't the thing that makes you scream, but the one that steals your voice and keeps you silent.

I saw the bruises, the burns, the cuts— I knew which ones had been done to you by someone you thought you could trust. Someone you thought loved you. I knew which ones you gave yourself.

I was the problem and the solution.

When I became too much myself, I had to change my life.

I loved you when I left you.

It is easier to take a position in the abstract than when it hits home.

I live by a man's code, designed to fit a man's world, yet at the same time I never forget that a woman's first job is to choose the right shade of lipstick.

The same is true of ranking him thus against any work of literature. [Bob Dylan] has been made, through no fault of his own, the object of odious tokenism.

The world has to tell us. In other words, we don't have an agenda or a battle plan or a map or a direction or anything. We're just going along, and our world is telling us.

To be homeward bound, no matter what tragic memories you have harbored, is unlike any voyage a man can ever make.

For what can be imagined more beautiful than the sight of a perfectly just city rejoicing in justice alone.

Chronic disease like a troublesome relative is something you can learn to manage but never quite escape.

Processing the human raw material is naturally more complicated than processing lumber.

There is more in every person's soul than we think.

Faith is not a commodity that you either have or don't have enough of, or the right kind of. It's an ongoing process. The opposite of faith is despair.