Destiny is not something that happens all at once-it's something that happens only in retrospect.

Some tourists think Amsterdam is a city of sin, but in truth it is a city of freedom. And in freedom, most people find sin.

Amsterdam is like the rings of a tree: It gets older as you get closer to the center.

I feel like crying, so I must be crying, but it's impossible to tell because I'm underwater.

...And in freedom, most people find sin.

So I walked back to my room and collapsed on the bottom bunk, thinking that if people were rain, I was drizzle and she was a hurricane.

A taste so profound and complex that it can't even be compared to other tastes, only to emotions. Cheesy waffles, I was thinking, tastes like love without the fear of love's dissolution.

My thoughts are stars I cannot fathom into constellations.

The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.

All those paper people living in their paper houses, burning the future to stay warm.

I would always love Alaska Young, my crooked neighbor, with all my crooked heart.

fight for what you believe in, for if you don't you will be forever fighting against yourself.

You see, ” she interrupted his blank stare, “it doesn’t take much effort to be kind. It only takes the ability to recognize where kindness is needed.

You never really know something until you teach it to someone else.

Starbucks has a role and a meaningful relationship with people that is not only about the coffee.

Im afraid of needles, except acupuncture needles.

We should be talking about expanding Social Security benefits - not cutting them.

I want the services to look and sound like the Grammys. It's not showy, but we represent God, and it should be first class.

I definitely feel Russian inside, even when I'm in America I feel Russian.

I was an idiot in terms of career-building, but I had a great time.

A community of small farmers... land property owners, will be the only assurance that the freedom our republic offers will be guaranteed to each and every citizen.