But it's not about knowing. It is simply about going forward.

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.

Nothing hurts a good soul and a kind heart more than to live amongst people who cannot understand it.

We can use meditation as a way to experiment with new ways of relating to ourselves, even our uncomfortable thoughts.

[T]o really try to be informed and literate today is to feel stupid nearly all the time, and to need help.

That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.

Mickey Mantle was baseball.

Telling the truth is the funniest joke in the world.

The whole art of the political speech is to put 'nothing' into it. It is much more difficult than it sounds.

I'm not a skinny girl. I push it. I'm at the limit of chubbiness at all times, but I'm happy at all times.

Growth and value investing are joined at the hip.

I want to know what you're thinking, you want to know what I'm thinking. But we're alone. In our own minds. We're trapped in this sort of isolation.