And if I didn’t, I’d spend the rest of my life wondering who I could have turned into if only I’d had the guts to try.

When you don't talk, there's a lot of stuff that ends up not getting said.

How could I pretend to be someone else when I was already failing at being the person I already was?

Sometimes,well,all the time,I can't think of what to say because I'm so dumb and stuff,and then maybe I think of it like five days later.

What is a staircase, but a corridor improved by elevation?

Today exists between yesterday and tomorrow.

She says you're not truly human until you've had your heart broken and you've broken someone's heart.

Oh. Listen, this is really hard for me . . . " "What is?" "You know. Being liked." I started to cry. I couldn't help it.

It kind of struck me how great it would be to go out with a guy that size. And if you, you know, got tired of dating him, you could always use him as a house or something.

I hate it when people make fun of me and it turns out they're right.

I ultimately decided to hold my tongue and settle instead for the comfort of ignorance. Not knowing the truth, I retained hope, and that hope I held like a smooth warm stone against my heart.

Nothing great is ever accomplished by following standards.

When we love God with our hearts in disproportion to our minds, our faith is out of kilter with the kind of faith God wants us to have.

But as long as you know you're nobody special, you'll be a very decent sort of Horse, on the whole, and taking one thing with another.

Prudence which degenerates into timidity is very seldom the path to safety.

I think it's important to realize that we're all just human. I mean, nobody is supernatural.

We are all born with a grab bag of gifts and gaps. Identify your true talents, then find out how to use them to make money.

When the lies are all told and forgot the truth will be their yet.

You are sad in the midst of every blessing. Take care that Fortune does not observe--or she will call you ungrateful.

I would never have been a good scientist - my attention span was too short for that.

If we sit by and become complacent and put our heads in the sand, we're complicit.