Every time you love someone, you put not just your faith in them, but your faith in everything to the test.

Remember that at any given moment there are a thousand things you can love.

Life tells you to take the elevator, but love tells you to take the stairs.

Kindness connects to who you are, while niceness connects to how you want to be seen.

The older I get, the more I lose my ability to breathe.

A photograph it a souvenir of a memory. It is not a moment. It is the looking at the photograph that becomes the moment. Your own moment.

The words that matter always stay.

motif, n. You don’t love me as much as I love you. You don’t love me as much as I love you. You don’t love me as much as I love you.

It was a mistake," you said. But the cruel thing was, it felt like the mistake was mine, for trusting you.

You have to believe there are kisses and laughs and risks worth taking.

Things that matter are not easy. Feelings of happiness are easy. Happiness is not. Flirting is easy. Love is not. Saying you’re friends is easy. Being friends is not.

When you get to the end of the rainbow, you haven't even started yet.

We are products of their understanding or lack of understanding.

God didn't bring us together. Our jobs brought us together. That's not divine intervention, that's just life.

Nothing will train you to write better as a writer, than working on your next book.

Guiding the ship takes more the your skill. It is the compass inside as the strength of your will.

There is nothing that can be changed more completely than human nature when the job is taken in hand early enough.

Everything I write, I read out loud. It has to sound a certain way. It has to look a certain way on the page.

The process of touring is always so weird to me. Once you've made the album, that's over, you move along.

My role isn't to be politically smart. My role is to do what's right under the constitution. And if that's politically unpopular, so be it.

No one who has lived through the second half of the 20th century could possibly be blind to the enormous impact of exchange programs on the future of countries.