What is reality if it isn't how we feel about things?

If clouds are blocking the sun, there will always be a silver lining that reminds me to keep on trying.

You're different. And I'm different too. Different is good. But different is hard. Believe me, I know.

You need to make time for family no matter what happens in your life.

Let me tell ya. You gotta pay attention to signs. When life reaches out with a moment like this it's a sin if you don't reach back... I'm telling you.

The problem with the stigma around mental health is really about the stories that we tell ourselves as a society. What is normal? That's just a story that we tell ourselves.

Tiffany and I are great friends, and I appreciate all that she is doing for me now. But she is not you. I still love you, Nikki. And you can’t control or alter true love.

Fly! There's a lot of sky out there for brave birds.

I opened up to you and you judge me

Life is not a PG feel-good movie. Real life often ends badly.

Life is not a PG feel-good movie. Real life often ends badly. Literature tries to document this reality, while showing us it is still possible for us to endure nobly.

I don't think there's anybody in America who thinks my personality is best suited to being Number Two.

There is talk of the failure of socialism, and where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia, and in Latin America?

Failure is a word I don't accept.

We all travel the Milky Way together, trees and men.

Weak people can be very stubborn.

I don't consider my marriages as failures! It's idiotic to assume that because a marriage ends, it's failed.

Like many people who live in the South, I'm drawn to the history of the Civil War.

The major organizing centers, like the labor movement, have been severely weakened in the United States by policy.

Poetry arrived in search of me. I don't know, I don't know where it came from, from winter or a river. I don't know how or when.

An organization has integrity—is healthy—when it is whole, consistent, and complete, that is, when its management, operations, strategy, and culture fit together and make sense.