Because here is the truth: If you want to have a chance at meeting somebody with whom you are genuinely compatible, never put your best foot forward.

You would be amazed by what you can give up, lose, or break, and yet still be a person who gets happy over brownies.

...handsome people are always interesting to watch. But a handsome person in crisis is riveting.

You need to grab your dream out of the sky like it's a kite and pinch the string through your fingers until you reach the spool.

I myself am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions.

I can't tell you how much I love Target and Costco, that kind of culture, because it's something I never felt a part of. I've always felt like a tourist because I have never fit in anywhere.

Should I just sit down, right here at carousel seven, and shake until somebody's arms are around me and they're saying, 'It's okay, I'm here, I'm here, come with me to the institute.

You are allowed to be alive. You are allowed to be somebody different. You are allowed to not say goodbye to anybody or explain a single thing to anyone, ever.

His laugh is made if porch swings and lemonade

But I can also write in crappy motel rooms, while standing in line, or sitting in the dentist's chair.

I wouldn't want to waste any of my brain cells on forgiving if it's holding me back.

You can't stop a teacher when they want to do something. They just do it.

Wonderful things are possible when you dream big and use your imagination.

You could have all the crazy thoughts you wanted, as long as you smiled and kept them to yourself.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, time travel's a nightmare. Don't go down that path.

Imagination is the cornerstone of human endeavor.

There is no need to struggle to be free; the absence of struggle is in itself freedom.

Nature is doing her best each moment to make us well. Why, nature is but another name for health.

When a work appears to be ahead of its time, it is only the time that is behind the work.

An argument may remove doubt, but only the Holy Spirit can convict of truth.

For those of us who try to keep remembering, Try to do our better than our best. Think of all the children in the drifts of snow. Winners never quit, but winters never rest.