“You're always the* person you were when you were born," she says impatiently. "You just keep finding new ways to express it.”

“What? Were you born stupid, or did you just die that way?”

“If you have just one person believe in you, you'll always find your way”

“When you're soulmates, it hits you like lightning, and you know that's the one person in the world you were meant to be with. You don't think you're soulmates; you just know it's your destiny whether you like it or not.”

“My grandfather had a saying he used to say to me when I was a kid… "always remember that I'm always for you, but I'd rather be for you when you're right than when you're wrong." Well, that's the way I feel about America. There's no use trying to say we haven't done a lot of things that were bad. We have.”

“Try to find pleasure in the speed that you're not used to. Changing the way you do routine things allows a new person to grow inside of you. But when all is said and done, you're the one who must decide how you handle it.”

“I always try to improve, to find new ways of expressing myself, to keep looking for truth and originality.”

“Because 'You're perfect just the way you are,' is what your guidance counselor says. And she's an alcoholic.”

“Love was love, one could find it with anyone, one could find it anywhere. It was just that you could never keep it. Not unless you were ready to die for it.”

“When you wear the weed of impatience in your heart instead of the flower Acceptance-with-Joy, you will always find your enemies get an advantage over you.”