“Sometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something, and sometimes one creates as significant an impressionby remaining silent.”

“This proves the significance of individualism; being able to face the music, to embrace it, and then create something beautiful from it. You can’t truly be happy unless you’re unhappy sometimes and the pinnacle of life can only be reached when one can carve their own path.”

“Sometimes when we say "God is silent," what's really going on is that he hasn't told the story the way we wanted it told. He will be silent when we want him to fill in the blanks of the story we are creating. But with his own stories, the ones we live in, he is seldom silent.”

“People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds, it is something one creates.”

“mother says that two souls are sometimes created together and--and in love before they're born.”

“Sometimes family was the cruelest form of love there was, for no one could hurt you more than the people who created you.”