I leaned in toward her, suddenly overwhelmed with the feeling that we must kiss.

Some tourists think Amsterdam is a city of sin, but in truth it is a city of freedom. And in freedom, most people find sin.

Amsterdam is like the rings of a tree: It gets older as you get closer to the center.

I feel like crying, so I must be crying, but it's impossible to tell because I'm underwater.

...And in freedom, most people find sin.

So I walked back to my room and collapsed on the bottom bunk, thinking that if people were rain, I was drizzle and she was a hurricane.

A taste so profound and complex that it can't even be compared to other tastes, only to emotions. Cheesy waffles, I was thinking, tastes like love without the fear of love's dissolution.

My thoughts are stars I cannot fathom into constellations.

The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.

All those paper people living in their paper houses, burning the future to stay warm.

I would always love Alaska Young, my crooked neighbor, with all my crooked heart.

We follow the codes not because they bring gain, but because we loathe the people we would otherwise become.

The presidents of colleges have to have some courage to step forward. You can't limit alcohol in college sports, you have to get rid of it.

A promise must never be broken.

Those who cannot forgive others break the bridge over which they themselves must pass.

No great power is ever satisfied with its sphere of influence. They never are.

America can't beat anyone anymore.

I am thankful for the kind treatment during my captivity and I ask God to accept me with mercy.

I think that Sarah Palin really missed the chance to educate the public on what some of the challenges her son is actually facing.

True power arises in knowing what you want, knowing what you don't want, expressing it clearly and lovingly without attachment to the outcome.

The worst thing about our problems is that nobody has nothing to do with them