I think all true stories are hopeful stories. I don't think there's any room for nihilism.

Some tourists think Amsterdam is a city of sin, but in truth it is a city of freedom. And in freedom, most people find sin.

Amsterdam is like the rings of a tree: It gets older as you get closer to the center.

I feel like crying, so I must be crying, but it's impossible to tell because I'm underwater.

...And in freedom, most people find sin.

So I walked back to my room and collapsed on the bottom bunk, thinking that if people were rain, I was drizzle and she was a hurricane.

A taste so profound and complex that it can't even be compared to other tastes, only to emotions. Cheesy waffles, I was thinking, tastes like love without the fear of love's dissolution.

My thoughts are stars I cannot fathom into constellations.

The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.

All those paper people living in their paper houses, burning the future to stay warm.

I would always love Alaska Young, my crooked neighbor, with all my crooked heart.

Jesus Christ shed His blood so we could have a life filled with victories

The man who loves other countries as much as his own stands on a level with the man who loves other women as much as he loves his own wife.

Success is not a place at which one arrives but rather the spirit with which one undertakes and continues the journey.

Nobody wins unless everybody wins.

Power is the ability to take one's place in whatever discourse is essential to action and the right to have one's part matter.

You shall become the person you are.

A ray of imagination or of wisdom may enlighten the universe, and glow into remotest centuries.

Man is neither good nor bad; he is born with instincts and abilities.

Heaven forbids, it is true, certain gratifications, but there are ways and means of compounding such matters.

I am opposed to authority, that egg of misery and oppression; I am opposed to it largely for what it does to those who exercise it.