I feel like Cinderella sitting in the middle of the road with a pumpkin and a couple of mice, while Prince Charming charges off to rescue some other chick.

So often we only do what we think is expected of us, when we are capable of so much more.

There's nothing more inspiring than the complexity and beauty of the human heart.

So I'm in love. That crazy, forget to eat, float around in a daze, talk on the phone all night and bounce out of bed every morning hoping to see him kind of love.

We think of happiness as something we can take. But usually it comes from being content with what we have, and accepting ourselves.

I think the birds in the area are dying laughing watching me try not to crash.

Time passes. That's the rule. No matter what happens, no matter how much it might feel like everything in your life has been frozen around one particular moment, time marches on.

Writers have superpowers.

Haven't you guessed by now? I say, my heart hammering. My home is you.

Have you ever been to a place you're supposed to love, but all you can think about is home?

Clara," he says, my name sounding different somehow when it passes through his lips. "I'll miss you.

It is good to know that every single title/rank you hold is earned in a high cost of hard work, not some random self given title/rank.

Success of life depends upon keeping one's mind open to opportunity and seizing it when it comes.

Inher­ent qual­ity is part of absolute qual­ity and with­out it things will appear shoddy. The users may not know why, but they always sense it.

Ecological differentiation is the necessary condition for coexistence.

We have to build a political consensus and that requires people to give up a little bit of their own ... in order to create this common ground.

Trust is a careless pursuit at best. At worst, it's a good way to get yourself killed.

Share our similarities, celebrate our differences.

A creative writing class may be one of the last places you can go where your life still matters.

All are one family, serve all.

None of the parties want this conflict to go on.