Caring for someone is scary, because you both know how it feels to lose someone in the span of a heartbeat.

Wealth can be created. Wit and intelligence can't.

Don't let the fear of losing them keep you from loving them.

Still trying to save the world?” “Always, ” I said, “and in case you haven’t noticed, it’s working. The world is still here.

Everyone was going crazy, like they’d just witnessed the birth of Jesus and the invention of electricity at the same time. Jude was a rock star, their savior, and they were paying him homage.

I’m a realist, ” I said. “Lying and making promises about forever is almost as bad as one day at a time.

It's always amazing how when we're sure we've lost something for good, it winds up finding us.

One of the oddest things about being grown-up was looking back at something you thought you knew and finding out the truth of it was completely different from what you had always believed.

I was raised with the Bible Belt mentality, and by coming to California, I came out of this dark place and unlearned a lot of things I'd been taught.

There is no future, there is no past. I live this moment as my last. There's only us, there's only this. Forget regret, or life is yours to miss. No other road, no other way, no day but today.

We all have a dark side. Most of us go through life avoiding direct confrontation with that aspect of ourselves, which I call the shadow self. Theres a reason why. It carries a great deal of energy.

Taking your first title is much more complicated and more difficult; it takes years of work - from go-kart to Formula One. The second comes more easily, because you've already got the experience.

There will come a day A hazy day in May Or a storm in mid-December When you need someone Just to have a little fun Then I could be the perfect girl for you.

I think that there's a lot of anxiety out there in people wanting their children to be part of the mainstream, to achieve based on the well-worn yardsticks.

I don't have many easy songs.

I took up writing to escape the drudgery of that every day cubicle kind of war.

Your body is only the garage for your soul.