At a certain point your brain stops to rationalize things. At a certain point it gives up, shuts off, shuts down.

But how could anyone who's ever seen a summer - big explosion of green and skies lit up electric with splashy sunsets, a riot of flowers and wind that smells like honey - pick the snow?

Live free or die.

It's funny, isn't it? When you are young you just want to be old, and then later you wish you could go back to being a kid.

How can someone have the power to shatter you to dust--and also to make you feel so whole?

Fridays are the hardest in some ways: you’re so close to freedom.

Dystopian novels help people process their fears about what the future might look like; further, they usually show that there is always hope, even in the bleakest future.

And when it started to get dark you pointed to the sky, and told me there was a star for every thing you loved about me.

i think of all the thousands of billions of steps and missteps and chances and coincidences that have brought me here. Brought you here, and it feels like the biggest miracle in the world.

I love you. Remember. They cannot take it

I guess that’s just part of loving people: You have to give things up. Sometimes you even have to give them up.

I think I might have to place you under arrest for trespassing. But I always go easy on pretty girls who confess.

My only problem is finding a way to play my fortieth fallen female in a different way from my thirty-ninth.

Balance is the perfect state of still water. Let that be our model. It remains quiet within and is not disturbed on the surface.

If I decided I'm the girl to change the world, I can do it anytime.

I don't believe much in luck. I believe more in work, in convincing, in stubbornness and in capacity.

But God will have a people upon the earth to maintain the Bible, and the Bible only, as the standard of all doctrines and the basis of all reforms.

There are 500 million people on Facebook, but what are they saying to each other? Not much.

The Constitution is government's stop sign. It says, you - the three branches of government - can go so far and no farther.

That is basically me, and although I have done many things in my life - conducting, playing piano, and so on - what is fundamental is my being a composer.

The thing always is to go to where people really are and what they're really feeling about life.