I'm so tired after dinner I fall asleep with my clothes on, almost as soon as my head hits the pillow, and so I forget to ask God, in my prayers, to keep me from waking up.

But how could anyone who's ever seen a summer - big explosion of green and skies lit up electric with splashy sunsets, a riot of flowers and wind that smells like honey - pick the snow?

Live free or die.

It's funny, isn't it? When you are young you just want to be old, and then later you wish you could go back to being a kid.

How can someone have the power to shatter you to dust--and also to make you feel so whole?

Fridays are the hardest in some ways: you’re so close to freedom.

Dystopian novels help people process their fears about what the future might look like; further, they usually show that there is always hope, even in the bleakest future.

And when it started to get dark you pointed to the sky, and told me there was a star for every thing you loved about me.

i think of all the thousands of billions of steps and missteps and chances and coincidences that have brought me here. Brought you here, and it feels like the biggest miracle in the world.

I love you. Remember. They cannot take it

I guess that’s just part of loving people: You have to give things up. Sometimes you even have to give them up.

Misery teaches you the value of joy. It reveals to you the gravitas of human life.

Harmony would only come with destruction.

He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it.

Nobody in the world can succeed alone.

The Americans are just more enthusiastic and more likely to engage in hyperbole.

No one wants to hear me crooning a ballad.

The only problems I've ever had with being honest is telling people how I feel about them or saying how I feel about other people.

If man knew how women pass the time when they are alone, they'd never marry.

If we do not believe within ourselves this deeply rooted feeling that there is something higher than ourselves, we shall never find the strength to evolve into something higher.

History does include aspects of directionality, and the present range of causes and phenomena does not exhaust the realm of past possibilities.