Dear world, I am excited to be alive in you, and I am thankful for another year.

Do you wait for things to happen, or do you make them happen yourself? I believe in writing your own story.

I haven’t been very impressed lately.By people, or places, or the way someone said he loved me and then slowly changed his mind.

I am not a broken heart. I am not collarbones or drunken letters never sent. I am not the way I leave or left or didn’t know how to handle anything, at any time, and I am not your fault.

You were the hardest year of my life and I’ve never been so happy. What does that say about me?

Sometimes you need to sit lonely on the floor in a quiet room in order to hear your own voice and not let it drown in the noise of others.

I am not collarbones or drunken letters never sent. I am not the way I leave or left or didn’t know how to handle anything, at any time, and I am not your fault.

Throwing yourself into the purse of a dream is the biggest adventure you can take on.

You can start anew at any given moment. Life is just the passage of time and it’s up to you to pass it as you please.

Fear is the thing that makes the heart grow.

I just want to be someone, to mean something to anyone…

As for whether the magic in The Crown’s Game is real, well . . . that depends. Do you believe in what you cannot see?

The failure of one regional bank, assuming it is following a traditional model, will not threaten the entire system.

I have never in my career embarked on a journey towards controversy. I have never deliberately set a flame.

Breathe... Everything is happening exactly as it should be.

He might have been naive, but he didn't care; he said he's rather die with his heart on his sleeve than end up another cynic.

I know how to go, go, go. Stopping, I've learned is the stuff of mastery.

Our self-love can be resigned to the sacrifice of everything but itself.

After we graduate tonight, we no longer have to let society happen to us. We get to create our own.

Some nights stay up till dawn, as the moon sometimes does for the sun. Be a full bucket pulled up the dark way of a well, then lifted out into light.

Only dreams give birth to change.