I hated high school. I was not the greatest student, participated in no activities, and spent most of my time hanging out in my parking lot.

Don't think or judge, just listen.

There comes a time when the world gets quiet and the only thing left is your own heart. So you'd better learn the sound of it. Otherwise you'll never understand what it's saying.

Your actions is like a raindrop; it falls into the pond making ripples and then its over.

It's a lot easier to be lost than found. It's the reason we're always searching and rarely discovered--so many locks not enough keys.

Looking at the pond, all I could think was that it is an incredivle thing, how a whole world can rise from what seems like nothing at all.

If you didn't love him, this never would have happened. But you did. And accepting that love and everything that followed it is part of letting it go.

You should never be surprised when someone treats you with respect, you should expect it.

Sometimes a question can hurt more than an answer.

Being brave and self-confident doesn't necessarily start inside...It starts with the rest of the world, and it leads back to you.

There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment.

We define love the way we experienced it.

Romance is the literature of hope.

The young artist... will discover out of ordinary things the meaning of ordinariness. He will not try to make them extraordinary. Only their real meaning will be stated.

Minds, unlike brains, are not entirely given at birth. Minds are also forms of cultural achievement.

We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.

Employed as I had been employing it, liquor is a fixative of old patterns.

Don't accept that you can't make a difference. Because if you can't make a difference, you won't make a difference, and if you put a multiplier on that we will continue on an unsustainable pathway.

I draw from my family and my friends and I feel like that small-town person. The achievements, the materialistic possessions have really become to mean less. They mean nothing.

We investigate the past not to deduce practical political lessons, but to find out what really happened.

A creditor is worse than a slave-owner; for the master owns only your person, but a creditor owns your dignity, and can command it.