I shiver, thinking how easy it is to be totally wrong about people-to see one tiny part of them and confuse it for the whole, to see the cause and think it's the effect or vice versa

Hope keeps you alive.

A good friend keeps your secrets for you. A best friend helps you keep your own secrets.

I guess that's what saying good-bye is always like--like jumping off an edge. The worst part is making the choice to do it. Once you're in the air, there's nothing you can do but let go.

Things change after you die, though, I guess because dying is the loneliest thing you can do.

How is it possible, I think, to change so much and not be able to change anything at all?

This is what happens when you try to help people. You get screwed.

Lindsay calls them the Pugs: pretty from far away, ugly up close.

Everything in me feels fluttering and free, like I could take off from the ground at any second. Music, I think, he makes me feel like music.

And then, just at that moment, when I'm no longer sure if I'm dreaming or awake or walking some valley in between where everything you wish for comes true, I feel the flutter of his lips on mine.

Hunky Heroes, rescuing distressed women, captive princesses, and girls without wheels since 1684. p. 450

A heroic act is not always followed by glory and parades and forever freedom, ” she said. “It’s often small, disregarded, or forgotten. But it matters.

When I get logical, and I don't trust my instincts - that's when I get in trouble.

Remember even though the outside world might be raining, if you keep on smiling the sun will soon show its face and smile back at you.

I understand that nobody understands me, but I can't be someone I'm not.

The characteristic of every neurosis is to represent itself as natural.

I'm not interested to change about the government. I'm interested to change the conditions for the people. So, yes, I talk a lot. But I think this is the only way for Italy in this moment.

A nation of ants, morose, frigid, and still preserving the same dread of happiness and joy as in the days of John Knox.

Greatness starts with the replacement of hatred with polite disdain.

I think magic is very related to happiness. So it is not there all the time, but there are beautiful moments of magic in everyone's life.

We’re supposed to depend upon God for our protection and our provision and for our daily bread, not for our government.