It is a decision that compassion is more important than fear, than fitting in, than following the crowd.

The only meaningful thing we can offer one another is love. Not advice, not questions about our choices, not suggestions for the future, just love.

There are only two lives we might live: our dream or our destiny. Sometimes they are one in the same, and sometimes they're not. Often our dreams are just a path to our destinies.

Don't let yourself become so concerned with raising a good kid that you forget you already have one.

If our goal is to be tolerant of people who are different than we are, then we really are aiming quite low. Traffic jams are to be tolerated. People are to be celebrated.

I was what they call a 'highly functional addict.' ... sometimes people who need help look nothing like people who need help.

You are not a mess. You are a feely person in a messy world.