I preferred to hang out with the dead, dying, or desperate books - used we call them, in a way that we'd never call a person, unless we meant it cruelly

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.

I'll walk where my own nature would be leading. It vexes me to choose another guide.

If you have faith in the public sector, as I do, you must be the harshest critic of corruption, waste and fraud in government.

Everyone is beautiful, everyone is perfect, and everyone is lovely.

Some people talk the talk and walk the walk while I'm silently running.

Today you are you! That is truer than true!

The holiest of holidays are those kept by ourselves in silence and apart; The secret anniversaries of the heart.

Coffee. I could smell coffee. Coffee would make everything better.

I'm a big believer in online communities and in user-generated content.

Even today, a majority of people surveyed say that they regret the fact that the USSR collapsed. But only 9 percent say that they would want it back.

Ambrose Phillips . . . who had the honor of bringing into fashion a species of composition which has been called, after his name, Namby Pamby.