The family we choose for ourselves is more important than the one we were born into; that people have to earn our respect and trust, not have it handed to them simply because of genetics.

There are people who take the heart out of you, and there are people who put it back.

Don't forget - no one else sees the world the way you do, so no one else can tell the stories that you have to tell.

I wouldn't like to live in a world where everything's as cut-and-dried as most people think it is

Everybody's got the potential for great good and great wrong in them, but it's the choices we make that define who we really are.

Most times we only see things for the way we are. But we're good at lying to ourselves. Sometimes we need somebody who's not living in our skin to point out how things really are.

Everything is the way it is because we've all agreed that's the way it is.