I can't wait until they don't have me here anymore.

You're like a grey sky. You're beautiful, even though you don't want to be.

Sometimes I wonder if my heart is like a black hole--it's so dense that there's no room for light, but that doesn't mean it can't still suck me in.

I will be stronger than my sadness.

..because never in my life have I ever been picked when there was another alternative.

I wonder if that's how darkness wins, by convincing us to trap it inside ourselves, instead of emptying it out.I don't want it to win.

He can't make me love him when he's going to leave me.

Maybe we all have darkness inside of us and some of us are better at dealing with it than others.

Anyone who has actually been that sad can tell you that there's nothing beautiful or literary or mysterious about depression.

Something inside me clicks. It's like I've spent my whole life fiddling with a complicated combination only to discover I was toying with the wrong lock.

Do you believe in other universes? Do you think there's another dimension where we're happy?

When you see a person for the first time, you're not seeing him, but seeing yourself and your whole life in his mirror.

I don’t care how smart you are. You’ll never understand how little you really know until you’ve had a woman.

Letting go isn’t about forgetting

The person determined to achieve maximum success learns the principle that progress is made one step at a time.

Obviously, you're known for what you do. But you still want to be known as a good person. You're a person a lot longer before and after you're a professional athlete.

I wanted to be a missionary and work abroad, but girls started to become a bigger part of my life around the time I lost interest in the priesthood.

Every builder builds somewhat for unknown purposes, and is in a measure a prophet.

Breaking the rules and challenging convention is in the DNA of every successful entrepreneur.

A blog is a message in a bottle, both in purpose and likely readership.

It is, after all, the dab of grit that seeps into an oyster's shell that makes the pearl, not pearl-making seminars with other oysters.