As we become the distant past, you become a future few of us would have imagined.

When you need to hold onto something, you should. Whatever gets you through, take it.

Pink is female - but why? Are girls any more pink than boys? Are boys any more blue than girls? It's something that has been sold to us, mostly so other things can be sold to us.

We do not start as dust. We do not end as dust. We make more than dust.That's all we ask of you. Make more than dust.

Truces may stop the battles, but part of you will always feel like you're at war.

It's hard to think of such things when you are busy dreaming or loving or screwing. The context falls away.

I'm sorry, " he says. "I don't usually like people. So when I do, part of me is really amused and the other part refuses to believe it's happening.

As soon as Neil is out of the shower, he texts Peter. You up? he asks.And the reply comes instantly:For anything.

What strange creatures we are, to find silence peaceful, when permanent silence is the thing we most dread

Dreaming and loving and screwing. None of these are identities. Maybe when other people look at us, but not to ourselves. We are so much more complicated than that.

So what’s your story?” Ryan asks.Avery looks up at him, hand still in the water. “My story?”“Yeah. Everybody has at least one.

The best relationships in our lives are the best not because they have been the happiest ones, they are that way because they have stayed strong through the most tormentful of storms.

Cadillacs are down at the end of the bat.

I have a close association with Gen. Petraeus... What you get in Dave Petraeus is a very unique officer, a combination of intelligence, extraordinary depth of knowledge and understanding.

As the problems are new, we must disenthrall ourselves from the past.

The enemy is subtle, how be it we are so deceived, when truth's in our hearts and we still don't believe.

It is not gender, nor age, nor race, but your ability to work hard at what you love.

With eternal investments there is never a loss of principle or principal.

I take a dose of mathematics every day to prevent my brain from becoming quite soft.

We must believe in ourselves as no one else will believe in us, we must match our expectations with the competence, courage and determination to succeed.

Shoes twisted into incredible lilies.