It was at once a miracle and the most natural thing in the world.

Over and over, we begin again.

Once you've recognized your own limits, you've raised yourself to a higher level of being, since you're closer to the real you.

If you don’t say what you’re thinking, you end up lying when you really need to speak up.

Things look different depending on your perspective. As I see it, fighting to bridge those gaps isn't what really matters. The most important thing is to know them inside and out, as differences, and to understand why certain people are the way they are.

Every time I look into his eyes I just want to take the ice cream or whatever I've got in my hand and rub it into his face. That's how much I like him.

For ten years I had been protected, wrapped up in something like a blanket that had been stitched together from all kinds of different things. But people never notice that warmth until after they've emerged. You don't even notice that you've been inside until it's too late for you ever to go back-- that's how perfect the temperature of that blanket is.