I like to take inspiration from people who do things that I could never do.

There's always more than one path, and to think otherwise is what resigns you to fate.

I might have felt broken, but at the end of it all, I didn't allow myself to break.

There's no time to hold grudges when you've seen how fragile things can really be.

Eventually kids become grown-ups too, and from there, the world is whatever they choose to make of it.

Happiness is what you choose, what you follow, not what follows you. These are the things I have seen, these are the things I now know, these are the things I will carry with me as I go.

Literature enables us to see our world and ourselves more clearly, to understand our lives more fully.

Also, vampires don't eat food. You never get to eat chocolate again. Ever. I'd rather die.

I get to be the nosiest friend or acquaintance that anyone has because it's - my job is to ask you about your dating life all the time.

If the world's leaders are serious about improving collective well-being, we'd better get serious about prioritizing education in our nations and in our global discussion.

Love, all agreeable as it is, charms more by the fashion in which it displays itself, than by its own true merit.

Perhaps I'm just too painstaking a type of person, but I can't grasp much of anything without putting down my thoughts in writing.

God pours out love upon all with a lavish hand -- but He reserves vengeance for His very own.

The UN to some extent diffuses U.S. power. Therefore it's less direct an agency of the United States than the U.S. Army is. But still, it can't escape the distribution of power in the world.

You know, if you want to meet a lot of Iraqi leaders, the best places are the hotels in Amman or in London. In general the government here is amazingly unpopular.

I Don't Want To Live Long. I Would Rather Get The Death Penalty Than Spend The Rest Of My Life In Prison