I can't destroy things so beautiful.""Time will destroy them if you don't. Time destroys everything. But if you destroy them, it will mean something.

Dreams can twist your emotions like no reality can.

With hardly any effort at all, she made me feel special. Just like all the other people she toyed with.

On my fifteenth birthday, I came to realize that the expression spoiled rotten meant exactly that. We kids were the apples of our parents' eyes, and I, for one, was rotting from inside out.

We are taught we can redeem them, she said to me once. We are taught it as soon as we can read. We can turn the beast into a prince, if only we love him enough.

Love is the soul's symphony.

What others say about you is irrelevant. You define who you are.

Friendship: A ship big enough for two in fair weather, but only one in foul.

Virtue is the roughest way, but proves at night a bed of down.

When someone writes a really nasty piece about me. I think they're generally untrue because I think I'm a nice person.

God has set labor and rest, as day and night to men successive.

Whenever you have a tight situation and there's a close pitch, the umpire gets a squawk no matter how he calls it.

You're gonna be your best salesman. If you don't sell yourself, nobody else is gonna have a better time with it than you. You've gotta get up for it, every day.