I needed to stop being what everyone thought I was.

It looked like the world was covered in a cobbler crust of brown sugar and cinnamon.

Sometimes you weren't supposed to share pain. Sometimes it was best just to deal with it alone.

Happiness is a risk. If you’re not a little scared, then you’re not doing it right.

Every life needs a little space. It leaves room for good things to enter it.

Don't let anyone see your vulnerable spots. Once they knew how to hurt you, they would do it again and again.

The next morning dawned bright and sweet, like ribbon candy.

She looked like autumn, when leaves turned and fruit ripened.

You can't change where you come from, but you can change where you go from here. Just like a book. If you don't like the ending, you make up a new one.

She was so Southern that she cried tears that came straight from the Mississippi, and she always smelled faintly of cottonwood and peaches.

But relying on one person for your every need is so dangerous. One set of hands isn't enough to keep you from falling.

Books are like flypaper, memories cling to the printed pages better than anything else.

Life’s not a one-shot special. It’s a friggin’ on-going series. Live it!

If you like it, you'll find a way to justify it.But if you don't, you'll find ways to falsify it.

I wanted myself. I wouldn't let what was mine be destroyed.

"Should we tamper with nature?" is no longer a question - we've tampered with nature on the whole face of the Earth.

Our fleshly nature tempts us to put ourselves above others or seek a position or place for ourselves instead of allowing others to have it.

When we have peace in our hearts and minds, we draw peace into our lives.

I was afterwards sorry for this, though, if I ever travel again, I shall trust to none but natives, as the climate of Africa is too trying to foreigners.

From 1991 till the present, Iraq sovereignty has been trampled by the United States.

Who would not rather have the fame of Archimedes than that of his conqueror Marcellus?