I am slow-thinking and full of interior rules that act as brakes on my desires.

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’m an atheist and I thank God for it.

The past is not dead. Indeed, it is often not even past.

He knew that the dread in these men’s minds was not of the fact, but of his naming it—as if the fact had not existed, but his words held the power to make it exist.

My parents are very cool and wildly supportive - maybe almost too much. I want to tell them to chill out.

Writers are opposite of athletes, they get better with age

My backhand is definitely a lot more solid and consistent. There were times when I couldn't hit it into the ocean.

I headbang with my head, no my hair

I don't look so much for tips. But when they interview a Nicklaus or a Palmer, I'm all ears. I listen to guys who have done it, been successful for years.

The way a question is asked limits and disposes the ways in which any answer to it-right or wrong-may be given.

Hold on to your salah, because if you lose that, you will lose everything else.