I know a thousand things louder than a soldier's gun; I know the heartbeat of his mother.

So guess what, if I ever have my own team I am picking everyone first even the worst kid and the kid with the stutter like a skipping record 'cause I know all of us are scratched, even if you can't hear it when we speak.

If you’re handing out flashlights in the dark, start handing out stars.

Our insanity is not that we see people who aren’t there. It’s that we ignore the ones who are.

Remember, you didn’t come here to write your heart out. You came to write it in.

We are all instruments pulling the bows across our own lungs. Windmills, still startling in every storm. Have you ever seen a newborn blinking at the light? I wanna do that every day. I wanna know what the kite called itself when it got away, when it escaped into the night.

That night when you kissed me, I left a poem in your mouth, and you can hear some of the lines every time you breathe out.