The truth doesn't always set you free; people prefer to believe prettier, neatley wrapped lies

But as he grew older, he learned that a word was a powerful thing. An insult didn't have to be shouted to bleed; a vow didn't have to be whispered to make you believe. Hold a thought in your head, and that was enough to change the actions of anyone and anything that crossed your path.

It doesn't take a whole long life to realize that what we deserve to have, we rarely get.

I am an activist. I have a really big pulpit with my fiction and I love knowing that I can make people think.

I know what it's like when the things you believe make you feel like you're on the outside looking in.

That the sum of a man's life was not where he wound up but in the details that brought him there. That we made mistakes. I closed my eyes, sick of the riddles, and to my surprise all I could see were dandelions-as if they had been painted on the fields of my imagination, a hundred thousand suns. And I remembered something else that makes us human: faith, the only weapon in our arsenal to battle doubt.

The only difference between a wish and a prayer is that you're at the mercy of the universe for the first, and you've got some help with the second.