For men love what they cannot have, and hate what they cannot control.

Danger sweetens the brew. Makes it more delicious.

Some promises are lies we never meant to tell.

If you find a way to write with open heart to Diary, a friend with Truth, no detail spared, your tome like Petrarch’s works will contain the scattered fragments of your soul.

Am I pretty? I must be, I thought, for all girls in love are pretty.

A wind that blows aimlessly is no good to anyone.

I read my eyes out and can't read half enough...the more one reads the more one sees we have to read.

people inspire you, or they drain you-Pick them wisely

If you worry about what everyone is trying to do, you become a spectator and not a player.

The first duty of life is to live.

I think if something resonates, even if it's surreal, it's because it is relatable and I think that that's a core issue for me.

All thought must, directly or indirectly, by way of certain characters, relate ultimately to intuitions, and therefore, with us, to sensibility, because in no other way can an object be given to us.

Our sufferings have taught us that no nation is sufficient unto itself, and that our prosperity depends in the long run, not upon the failures of our neighbors but their successes.

In elections, you can't tell the outcome until you open the ballot boxes.

Everyone can act. Everyone can improvise. Anyone who wishes to can play in the theatre.