Don’t try and make me feel better, Alex. I hate you.”“I hate you, too.

But wishes are only granted in fairy tales.

One of the things that makes me who I am is the loyalty I have to people I hold close to my heart.

You are the one girl that made me risk eveything for a future worth having.

I want to try making things right because picking up the pieces is way better than leaving them the way they are.

Thoughts of being a pirate and stealing her away to my ship race across my mind. Although I’m not a pirate, and she’s not my captured princess.

I'm ready for something private, private and real

Makin' mistakes ain't a crime, you know. What's the use of having a reputation if you can't ruin it every now and then?

When she wraps her arms around my neck, all I want to do is protect this girl for the rest of my life.

I realise it’s going to happen. This girl of my dreams, this girl who is more like me than anyone I’ve ever met, wants to kiss me.

The urge to jump into his arms and feel the warmth of them surrounding me is so powerful, I wonder if it's medically possible to be addicted to another human being.

Self-pity is the worst disability a person can have, Callie. It's crippling.

A strong man can make his own luck.

There is enormous continuity beneath the day-to-day news that makes America that indispensable nation when it comes to maintaining order and promoting prosperity around the world.

It flew towards the roof of the net like a Wurlitzer

Consider fully, act decisively.

The question in crisis or ordeal is not: Are you going to be an extremist? The question is: What kind of extremist are you going to be?

An artist without obsession isn't worth a damn!

I'm not a great consumer. I always ask myself, 'Do I really need that piece?' I have friends who have 300 pairs of shoes; how would you leave the house in the morning?

I respect those who follow religious routes only if they seem to me to be morally proper and in accord with the modern world.

It is from the Himalayan forests and ecosystems that I learned most of what I know about ecology.