I mean, when do we start feeling like the world belongs to us?I wanted to tell him that the world would never belong to us. 'I don't know', I said. 'Tomorrow.

The heart can get really cold if all you've known is winter.

The summer sun was not meant for boys like me. Boys like me belonged to the rain.

Another secret of the universe: Sometimes pain was like a storm that came out of nowhere. The clearest summer could end in a downpour. Could end in lightning and thunder.

I wondered if my smile was as big as hers. Maybe as big. But not as beautiful.

Water was something he loved, something he respected. He understood its beauty and its dangers. He talked about swimming as if it were a way of life.

I bet you could sometimes find all the mysteries of the universe in someone's hand.

How could I have ever been ashamed of loving Dante Quintana?

Summertime. It was a song. It was a season. I wondered if that season would ever live inside of me.

The day he came home from the hospital, he cried. I held him. I thought he would never stop.I knew that a part of him would never be the same.They cracked more than his ribs.

You can’t expect to go both ways when you’re driving on a one-way street.

As I look back over my mountains of growth and compare them to the molehills where I stagnated, community often made the difference.

If you can be very impartial in analysing your own past, then you will have a much better future!

Do not flatter yourselves: if you go to places of worship merely to look about you or to hear music, you are not worshipping God.

The inferior complex is now extended to all Europe, save Nordics.

When a lot of people meditate what they do is they're thinking about other people. This is a terrible mistake. If you do this, stop!

I just wanted to shed everything and do the things I really wanted to do. All the things I was scared of, I just wanted to try. It was like a clearing.

When we married, you measured 36-24-36. Now you're 42-42-42. There's more of you, but you are not worth as much.

Guys respect other guys who get it done on the field, play through adversity, and come through when it matters most.

I have a massive divide between being a competent human being and being completely hopeless, when it comes to logic.

On the other hand, I think it is wonderful for everyone to take ballet classes, at any age. It gives you a discipline, it gives you a place to go. It gives you some control in your life.