I just couldn't make the grade as a hack-that, like everything else, requires a certain practiced excellence.

For what it's worth, it's never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you're proud of and if you find that you're not, I hope you have the strength to start over.

You are the finest, loveliest, tenderest, and most beautiful person I have ever known—and even that is an understatement.

And in the end, we were all just humans...Drunk on the idea that love, only love, could heal our brokenness.

Suddenly she realized that what she was regretting was not the lost past but the lost future, not what had not been but what would never be.

To be kind is more important than to be right. Many times, what people need is not a brilliant mind that speaks but a special heart that listens.

The world only exists in your eyes. You can make it as big or as small as you want

Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.

There are all kinds of love in this world but never the same love twice.

You have a place in my heart no one else ever could have.

The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.

My heroes were all in the theatre.

A volunteer is a person who can see what others cannot see; who can feel what most do not feel.

Familiarity breeds attempt.

Part of my mind is working on how to end the thing while I'm going on. You need at least two brains to write.

Most people are sceptical about the wrong things and gullible about the wrong things.

I have friends with deals, both major and indie, and the ones on majors never seem as happy, and quite frankly aren't making music as strong as those on independents.

A student can win twelve letters at a university without learning how to write one.

A good diet is the most powerful weapon we have against disease and sickness.

Do something good for yourself today. You matter.

I knew a lot about what I did when I was 20. I had read a lot, and I aspired to learn everything I could about the subject.