When the creative impulse sweeps over you, grab it. You grab it and honor it and use it, because momentum is a rare gift.

Getting lost is just another way of saying 'going exploring.

What would it be like to look in the mirror and actually accept what you see? Not loathe the reflection, or despise it, or be resigned to it? But to like it?

To dream is to starve doubt, feed hope.

Flawed, we're truly interesting, truly memorable, and yes, truly beautiful.

Hey, if it's a good philosophy, it works. Death is imminent. Live every day like it's your last.

My confidence was of the hothouse variety, carefully cultivated under highly regulated conditions. One wrong look, one mean comment, and my facade would wither.

Silence, too, can be torture.

I wondered about her chicken-and-egg relationship with Dad. Which came first? Her helplessness or his controlling?

Safe, I decided, didn't leave much room for fun.

Jacob: "Let her stare."Terra: "What?"Jacob: "Yeah most of the starers are just curious. Smile back. That's what I used to do.

Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized.

Tracy Morgan is subdued. I'm cool. I'm chilled out.

I'm on the Sensa diet. It's a little magic powder based on Dr. Hirsh's clinical trials and studies and it basically signals the brain that you're full through smellology.

I never decided at all to be an artist; being an artist seems to have happened to me.

If you take Christ out of Christianity, Christianity is dead. If you remove grace out of the gospel, the gospel is gone. If the people do not like the doctrine of grace, give them all the more of it.

I'm not a top-five player yet.

My dad didn't want me to play guitar. He played piano, so I chose that. And I ended up loving it

Try to keep ourselves open, no matter how closed the world tries to make us sometimes.

You never know yourself until the chips are down. True strength is not measured when your at your strongest, but when you’re at your weakest.

It never really crossed my mind that I was ever going to win a major. I always said that if you win a major, that's fine. If you don't, you tried your best.