But feelings aren't like thoughts, they can't be changed at will.

It's the ones you love the most who can lift you in an instant, and destroy you without trying.

Old pain doesn't completely die. Time may soothe it, stoke over it until it looks like it has healed, but it never dies properly. It stays with you, it lives in the cracks of your soul, waiting for moments when you feel true pain

Far too many people opened their hearts and lives at the drop of a hat. Why give someone that power over you? Why endow them with the ability to hurt you that much? Let someone in and you were asking for an emotional kicking some day.

If we're going to change the world for the better, kids need to know that they can by feeling good about who they are and helping others.

When you can't be honest with people, you can't ever relax with them.

I was in charge. Of it all. All the time. For ever.