Horses were never wrong. They always did what they did for a reason, and it was up to you to figure it out.

Confidence doesn't come from thinking you're perfect or flawless. That's arrogance. Confidence comes from appreciating the beauty of your texture.

If you don't want to sink, you better figure out how to swim

When I asked my mother, ‘how do I tell people about you’ her answer was ‘tell the truth’. But of course, the truth is never simple.

Years from now, when all the junk they got is broken and long forgotten, you'll still have your stars.

If you had weak eyes, they needed exercise to get strong. Glasses were like crutches. They prevented people with feeble eyes from seeing the world on their own.

New Yorkers, I figured, just pretended to be unfriendly.