I'll see you later, he says, and as he does, he runs his finger briefly over my wrist. It passes over me like air, and makes me shiver like a kiss.

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.

In times of stress, the best thing we can do for each other is to listen with our ears and our hearts and to be assured that our questions are just as important as our answers.

Grade is only a number.

There is no man in this world without some manner of tribulation or anguish though he be king or pope.

Theres nothing gratuitous about my films.

A realization of the Presence of God is the most powerful healing agency known to the mind of man.

Pray that I would keep my focus on the Lord, no matter what.

The surest way of concealing from others the boundaries of one s own knowledge is not to overstep them.

Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.

I've always been a rule-follower. Even when I was a kid, I tried to do everything by the book.

God makes originals not carbon copies. It's okay to be inspired by someone, but be bold enough to be yourself.