He was a dying man looking down on the surgeons trying to save him.

The missing piece in his stomach hurt so much-and eventually he stopped thinking about the Theorem and wondered only how something that isn't there can hurt you.

I just want to do something that matters. Or be something that matters. I just want to matter.

I figured something out. The future is unpredictable.

Do you know what your problem is? You can't live with the idea that someone might leave.

He liked the mere act of reading, the magic of turning scratches on a page into words inside his head.

The future lay before him, inevitable but invisible.

All hurt is brain hurt.

Ergo: girls should always make the first move, because (a) they are, on the whole, less likely to be rejected than guys, (b) that way, girls will never get kissed unless they want to be kissed.

Maybe life is not about accomplishing some bullshit markers.

People are supposed to care. It's good that people mean something to you, that you miss people when they're gone.

In our deepest valleys we are strengthened to climb our highest mountains.

Inside each one of us is a rebel just waiting to be freed. That rebel is the real “You.

If we stay where we are, where we're stuck, where we're comfortable and safe, we die there... When nothing new can get in, that's death.

The modern composer builds upon the foundation of truth.

The heart of Christ can be seen through the openings of his wounds. For what can prove to me so clearly as your wounds that you, O Lord Jesus, are sweet & mild & plenteous in mercy.

It was like pulling teeth trying to get me to L.A. I hated it for so long, but now I've got this great life here.

I was always fraught with guilt, and it's such a waste of an emotion. It keeps you out of the moment of being where you are.

You know people exaggerate that all is wild in Jamaica. I think that sometimes people fire a shot to try to make you nervous. They are not trying to hurt you.

I'm just like you. I enjoy the forbidden fruits in life, too.

Any individual is greater than the Milky Way.