Forgiving others is easier when I remember that I'm human and stupid, too.

You know, sometimes the most direct route isn't the right one. - Jacob

Physical beauty wasn't the same as True Beauty, any more than pretty ugly meant truly ugly or Magnetic North meant True North.

He knew me in all the ways that truly mattered: the shape of my fears, the contours of my dreams.

Beauty—real everlasting beauty—lives not on our faces, but in our attitude and our actions. It lives in what we do for ourselves and for others.

Come on, don't you ever stop and smell the coffee?

My confidence was of the hothouse variety, carefully cultivated under highly regulated conditions. One wrong look, one mean comment, and my facade would wither.