Finishing my thoughts aloud meant saying how my dad had passed, and I had failed. How I had smoked joints and lay in bed enabling my hopelessness. I’d been the ugly in my world.

His kiss was light but lingering, like smoke from shivering lips on a freezing winter morning.

I believe in love at first sight…But it’s not the first moment you lay eyes on a person, it’s the moment you first seethe person they truly are.

...my ability to trust had been shattered into splinters, its fragmented shards slicing through every darkened recess of my mind, his absolution won my over all the more.

Don't the great tales never end?""No, they never end as tales, " said Frodo. "But the people in them come, and go when their part's ended. Our part will end later – or sooner.

Your life is your statement to the world representing your values, your beliefs, your dreams.

I think one of the funniest things about '30 Rock' is that Liz Lemon is sort of like Buster Keaton - she's always the fool, the joke is always on her.

Sometimes you have to go up really high to see how small you are.

You know every cell in our bodies is completely renewed every seven years, so how can we talk about being the same person? We're absolutely not.

The problem is not a lack of understanding of what we are saying and doing; the problem is difference of opinion about what to do.

The U.S.-China relationship, of course, has elements of both cooperation and competition.

Trade increases the wealth and glory of a country; but its real strength and stamina are to be looked for among the cultivators of the land.