The only place you will be accepted is the place you make for yourself.

Courage is nothing more than taking one step more than you think you can.

If you have dreams you want to pursue, the time is now. There is no perfect time, and there is no better time. There is only the time you lose while you're making excuses.

I had come to discover that "safe" was an illusion, a pretense that adults wrapped around their children- and sometimes themselves- to make the world seem comfortable. I had discovered that under that thin cover of let's-pretend, monsters and nightmares lay, and that not all of them came from places like the moonroads or the nightling cities. Some of the monsters were people we knew. People we thought we could trust.

You must learn to face the fact, always, that you choose to do what you do, and that everything you do affects not only you but others.

A voice speaks to each of us in the still silent places - a voice that tells us to stand, to have courage, to do what is right.

Willful ignorance and endless laws become the replacement for self-education and self-restraint, because ignorance and laws are easy.