This is my voice. There are many like it, but this one is mine.

The tiniest dream that you make happen is worth more than the biggest dream that you never attempt.

But we are more than genteel or civilized/ we are an idea in the process of being realized.

To discover the thing you're brilliant at you first have to endure realizing all the things you're average at.

You, me, this city, this country, we will always have a choice.When you stand up to be counted, tell the world, THIS IS MY VOICE. There are many like it, but this one is mine.

Scrape the grey sky clean. Realize every grey cloud is a smoke screen to blind us from the truth, and the truth is whether we see them or not the sun and moon are still there, and always there is light.

Don't tell me that [broken heartstrings] hurt less than a broken bone, that an ingrown life is something surgeons can cut away, that there's no way for it to metastasize - it does.