Dreams can twist your emotions like no reality can.

With hardly any effort at all, she made me feel special. Just like all the other people she toyed with.

On my fifteenth birthday, I came to realize that the expression spoiled rotten meant exactly that. We kids were the apples of our parents' eyes, and I, for one, was rotting from inside out.

I can't destroy things so beautiful.""Time will destroy them if you don't. Time destroys everything. But if you destroy them, it will mean something.

It was as if someone had taken a tiny bead of pure life and decking it as lightly as possible with down and feathers, had set it dancing and zigzagging to show us the true nature of life.

It's awfully hard to convey a sense of credibility to allies when you [the Congress] voted for the war and then you declared: Wrong war, wrong place, wrong time.

We're all living contradictions, trying to survive in a world filled with hypocrites

What is desperately needed... is the skepticism and the sense of history that a liberal arts education provides.

"Old times" never come back and I suppose it's just as well. What comes back is a new morning every day in the year, and that's better.

My education is the most important thing so I always have to make time for it.

I only fear the death of others. For me, true death is that of the people I love

It has always amazed and humbled me to how the risk to bloom can seem so insurmountable beforehand and so inevitably freeing once the threshold of suffering is crossed.

I think watching a movie that simply confirms my feelings is a waste of time. That applies not only to movies, but also to books and every form of art.

So that I may meet the day with the knowledge to build the day I will look into my soul while it still dawn, before the morning breaketh.