Blake took her face in his hands. “You let me touch you. Kiss you. Your skin? It feels like piano keys. My hands know just where to go.

You make the rest of the beautiful things in the world cry for even trying at all. You make it hard for me to breathe.

Don't tie your success to anything other than what's inside you

In that moment? I knew you were sent to me, that I'd been given nothing from the people in my life, but I think from God, or whoever is in charge, I got you.

True love, the kind that lasts forever, is very rare indeed. It takes compromise, continued growth, and trust.

If Fortune calls offer him a seat.

Sooner or later you must move down an unknown road that leads beyond the range of the imagination, and the only certainty is that the trip has to be made.

College students today are drowning in debt, and it is hurting them and hurting our economy. We must find a way to help families pay for college without condemning them to a lifetime of indebtedness.

If we are wise, let us prepare for the worst.

I feel like we were married from the moment we sat down there.

If you can defend, counter-attack and take the initiative then you become a more dangerous player.

I grew up in a religious family, and we weren't allowed to listen to rock music.

We sing with the entire body. The sounds that we make emanate not just from the head, but from the whole heart and soul, and, most important, the gut.

I know that things get worse before they get better because that’s what my psychiatrist says, but this is a worse that feels too big.

the wide discrepancy between reason and feeling may be unreal; it is not improbable that intellect is a high form of feeling - a specialized, intensive feeling about intuitions.