How different it all was from what you'd planned.

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 guess knowledge alone does not equal wisdom.

At liminality, at a transitional point between his last night dream and reality, he realizes he has made a big mistake and happiness is possible without death. (Coming back to himself.)

Hey there, Hallie, welcome to the next place we need a Deer Crossing sign.' I didn't know that deers could

It occurred to me that the quiet in the suburbs had nothing to do with peace.

I look into my glass, And view my wasting skin, And say, 'Would God it came to passMy heart had shrunk as thin!

Ignorance breeds fear; the more you learn about your subject, the less fear it holds for you.

Mental health is seen as a massive drag to have to write about - worthy, dull. Something you should 'have' to read / write about.

Only two classes of books are of universal appeal. The very best and the very worst.

Basically, nice guys can finish last.

What you have in Iraq is not just a society coming apart like Yugoslavia or Congo. What is at stake is not just Iraq's stability but the balance of power in the region.