How you matter is defined by the things that matter to you. You matter as much as the things that matter to you do.

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.

Love is still alive in my heart. Dreams are still alive at the dead of night. Hopes are still dancing in my mind.

There is so much evil in emphasizing too much miracles.

Our legacy is not found in all the 'stuff' we’ve accumulated on our life’s journey. It’s written in the memories of those whose lives we’ve touched along the way.

That common cold of the male psyche, fear of commitment.

I snore. Just ask the others!

Mind is the great lever of all things; human thought is the process by which human ends are ultimately answered.

The best rescues of all leave a family in a better place.

Only love could pick a nested pair of steel Bramah locks.

Education is imposed ignorance.