I believe that you live on inside the hearts and minds of everyone you've touched while you were here on earth.

Miracles happen quietly every day - in an operating room, on a stormy sea, in the sudden appearance of a road side stranger. They are rarely tallied. No one keeps score.

The truth is, there is no line. There's only your life, how you mess it up, and who is there to save you. Or who isn't.

What is it about childhood that never lets you go, even when you're so wrecked it's hard to believe you ever were a child?

Turn on the faucet. Wash yourself with the emotion. It won’t hurt you. It will only help. If you let the fear inside, if you pull it on like a familiar shirt, then you can say to yourself, “All right, it’s just fear, I don’t have to let it control me. I see it for what it is".

Without love we all like birds with broken wings.

I feel ashamed now that I tried to take my life. It is such a precious thing. I had no one to talk me out of my despair and that was a mistake. You need to keep people close. You need to give them access to your heart.