“The mirror can lie it doesn't show you what's inside
And it can tell you you're full of life
It's amazing what you can hide just by putting on a smile.”

“How amazing it is that friendships can become so full that you can't imagine what your life was like before them.”

“Your calling isn’t something that somebody can tell you about. It’s what you feel. It is the thing that gives you juice. The thing that you are supposed to do. And nobody can tell you what that is. You know it inside yourself.”

“When you put the ball in his hands there is no telling what is going to happen - sometimes I am just amazed watching what he can do even though I am playing on the same field he is.”

“They lie about marijuana. Tell you pot-smoking makes you unmotivated. Lie! When you're high, you can do everything you normally do just as well—you just realize that it's not worth the fucking effort. There is a difference.”

“Life is going to give you just what you put in it. Put your whole heart in everything you do, and pray, then you can wait.”

“Don't tell me what I should do until you show me what you can do.”

“it's amazing what you can get used to.”

“I know I can't tell you what it's like to be gay. But I can tell you what it's not. It's not hiding behind words, Mama. Like family and decency and Christianity.”

“In a city, you can be alone in a crowd, and in fact what makes the city a city is that it lets you hide the strangeness in your mind inside its teeming multitudes.”