I know the odds are all against me and I know you might not feel this way too but I know I would rather die trying to know if I could mean something to you

Remember that at any given moment there are a thousand things you can love.

Life tells you to take the elevator, but love tells you to take the stairs.

Kindness connects to who you are, while niceness connects to how you want to be seen.

The older I get, the more I lose my ability to breathe.

A photograph it a souvenir of a memory. It is not a moment. It is the looking at the photograph that becomes the moment. Your own moment.

The words that matter always stay.

motif, n. You don’t love me as much as I love you. You don’t love me as much as I love you. You don’t love me as much as I love you.

It was a mistake," you said. But the cruel thing was, it felt like the mistake was mine, for trusting you.

You have to believe there are kisses and laughs and risks worth taking.

Things that matter are not easy. Feelings of happiness are easy. Happiness is not. Flirting is easy. Love is not. Saying you’re friends is easy. Being friends is not.

[The] faith spoken of in the Bible is not a matter of intellectual belief, but a matter of connecting experientially and substantively with the person of Truth, Jesus.

Most things in life are moments of pleasure and a lifetime of embarrassment

A strength to harm is perilous in the hand of an ambitious head.

It is a terrible thing for an author to have a lot of people running about his book without any invitation from him at all.

The generality of friends puts us out of conceit with friendship; just as the generality of religious people puts us out of conceit with religion.

Don't try to transport something you don't possess...I want this truth to be incarnational.

If you look at pictures of David O. Selznick , he wasn't even attractive. There's no way to portray him in a way that is glamorous, but that's one of the things that's fascinating to me about him.

Sometimes your worst hits in life wind up being your best advantage. If only you could believe that when you're getting hit.

I'm not for raising taxes on anyone - period.

Under the bludgeonings of chance My head is bloody, but unbowed.