How many beers do y'all think it takes before one internationally scientist turns to another and says, 'Dude, bet you twenty bucks I can levitate a frog with a magnet?' ' Sam drawled.

If everything really does get better, the way everyone claims, then happiness should be graphable. But that's crap, because better isn't quantifiable.

And I realized that there's a big difference between deciding to leave and knowing where to go.

I wondered what things what things became when you no longer needed them, and I wondered what the future would hold once we'd gotten past our personal tragedies and proven them ultimately survivable.

We're living tragedies, just passing time 'til our funerals.

Fine! You guys can all be beautiful snowflakes! I'm gonna go over here and be an awkward snowflake!

And so she ghosted on, in relentless pursuit of escape, not from society, but from herself.

Still here, Faulkner?" Luke sneered."Still doing that terrible impression of Draco Malfoy?" I asked.

Maybe I’d already guessed that the physics of us didn’t defy any laws of gravity, and with her, there was always an equal and opposite reaction.

People aren't nice, people aren't nice, you should know that by now.

Take your life out of high gear and disengage the autopilot mode. Try living mindfully and avoid the pattern of living in a reactive manner.

The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements compassion respect longing patience regret surprise and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love.

I am not unaware how unpopular on this floor are the sentiments I am about to advocate.

The European Union Treaty... within a few years will lead to the creation of what the founding fathers of modern Europe dreamed of after the war, the United States of Europe.

Music just ain't what it used to; We used to have songs that you could shoplift or boost to.

You put together two things that have not been put together before. And the world is changed.

A philosophical problem has the form: I don't know my way about.

Sharing experience and building public support for the full range of rights is more powerful than legal cases.

There is a lesson in almost everything that you do, and getting the lesson is how you move forward. It is how you enrich your spirit.