Happiness, remarked Maury Noble one day, is only the first hour after the alleviation of some especially intense misery.

For what it's worth, it's never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you're proud of and if you find that you're not, I hope you have the strength to start over.

You are the finest, loveliest, tenderest, and most beautiful person I have ever known—and even that is an understatement.

And in the end, we were all just humans...Drunk on the idea that love, only love, could heal our brokenness.

Suddenly she realized that what she was regretting was not the lost past but the lost future, not what had not been but what would never be.

To be kind is more important than to be right. Many times, what people need is not a brilliant mind that speaks but a special heart that listens.

The world only exists in your eyes. You can make it as big or as small as you want

Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.

There are all kinds of love in this world but never the same love twice.

You have a place in my heart no one else ever could have.

The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.

I remembered the fox. One runs the risk of crying a bit if one allows oneself to be tamed.

I regard the Klan, the Anglo-Saxon clubs and White American societies, as far as the Negro is concerned, as better friends of the race than all other groups of hypocritical whites put together.

But he was here. In my bed. His body warm and hard and feeling so much like home that I ached.

When you live in New York, one of two things happen - you either become a New Yorker, or you feel more like the place you came from.

You're dealing with the body, and you're dealing with bodily functions. We romanticize everything about people in movies.

I think the worst way to go is to have somebody think they speak for God. If you look at history, every nation that has operated as if it spoke for God has become violently destructive.

... nothing loved is ever lost or perished.

A man must not always tell all, for that be folly; but what a man says should be what he thinks.

Anyway, I try to be a good guy. I try to tell the truth, but I'm not religious.

Wall Street's graveyards are filled with men who were right too soon.