I figured something out. The future is unpredictable.

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.

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.

He wanted to draw out the moment before the moment- because as good as kissing feels, nothing feels as good as the anticipation of it.

If you want more then be more. If you want better then be better.

I know I tackled something big, new, and scary and I survived.

We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.

I think 'Elf' is funny, with Will Ferrell. That's a great Christmas movie.

I used to be a longshoreman. I didn't go to college. I have a voice that when I say something, it can sound way meaner than you think it is.

You know, I have more than enough to do without having to worry about the financial system.

Faith upholds a Christian under all trials, by assuring him that every painful dispensation is under the direction of his Lord.

I think that I've learned to relax, and trust in and hire very talented people, and trust in their abilities a little more.

Sacrifice does not mean that, by giving, we lose something. We sacrifice our limited self to our highest and largest Self, and at that time we immediately become the largest and the highest Self.

That's the hardest thing to do-to stay with a sentence until it has said what it should say, and then to know when that has been accomplished.