“I believe that we must align our actions with our highest principles. No matter the outcome, we will not have failed if we act from our best intentions.” “The road to hell is paved with good intentions, Captain,” Chakotay said with equal certainty. “So is the road to peace,” Cambridge observed.”

“All bad behavior is really a request for love, attention, or validation.”

“I have begun to believe in, and even to preach, a poetry of necessity. This is a recognition not just of the necessity of poetry to our lives, but also the fact that necessity is what drives most of the poetry that matters, or the way that it matters.”

“The things we remember are what we hold on to. And what we hold on to becomes the story of our lives.”

“I'm gonna kick your miserable ass, God!”

“Scars are always beautiful. They're proof we lived.”

“The most powerful poetry is birthed through cracks in history, through what is broken and unseen.”

“Travel does not exist without home....If we never return to the place we started, we would just be wandering, lost. Home is a reflecting surface, a place to measure our growth and enrich us after being infused with the outside world.”