Anonymity is an abused privilege, abused most by people who mistake vitriol for wisdom and cynicism for wit.

The closed mind is a disease. You need to have an open mind; otherwise life will just pass you by.

Sometimes the little opportunities that fly at us each day can have the biggest impact.

The only time you have no opportunities is when you decide to stop taking them.

Wagamama. Text messaging aficionados might like to note that this is one of the most satisfying words you can possibly type.

What a terrible thing, I thought, to let a moment go.

But the happiest people are the ones who understand that good things occur when one allows them to.

I was saying yes because when you're in love, the world is full of possibilities, and when you're in love, you want to take every single one of them.

If I was going to act irresponsibly, the least I could do was be responsible for it.

Probably some of the best things that have ever happened to you in life, happened because you said yes to something. Otherwise things just sort of stay the same.

The people around you are you. They share your history. They can even write it with you. And when you lose one, there's no doubt you lose some of yourself, however they're lost.

Pain makes people who they are.

The state was made for man, not man for state.

Marketing shouldn't feel like marketing. It should feel like a story.

If we be empty and poor it is not because God's hand is straitened but ours is not opened.

Abandon the 'I', because it's a lie.

I mean that much more than wiser beings from beyond the stars bringing us enlightenment or death or salvation, we are likely to find ourselves the wisest beings on the scene.

I have never, for better or worse, thought about a 'career path' or anything like that.

She was the stone-faced queen, then and ever after. She had needed the mask to rule, and she had been glad to have it. She wondered if Eugenides was glad of his.

I have 'To Kill A Mockingbird' signed by Harper Lee. That is my prized possession.

What libertarians assert is simply that differences among normal adults do not imply different fundamental rights.