I've never wanted a heart as much as I want yours.

Hands that never touch. Lips that never meet. The Almost Lovers, never to be.

For there has never been a story nearly as tragic as the one of Frankenstein, except for that of Johnny Heart and his Francesca Valentine.

Run, sweetheart, run.

We are all Romeos looking for our Juliet, but never finding her.

When I kiss you, it will be THE kiss, not just A kiss.

Be nice to nerds. You may end up working for them. We all could.

I just kind of put my feelings away somewhere after that.

How easy it is to deny the pain of someone else's suffering.

Old praise dies, unlesse you feede it. [Old praise dies unless you feed it.]

Oh, for a forty-parson power to chant Thy praise, Hypocrisy! Oh, for a hymn Loud as the virtues thou dost loudly vaunt, Not practise!

I learned that, "Mike, you get your first job on your ability and every job after that on your dependability."

I say to all those leaders, do not look the other way. Do not hesitate... It is within your power to avoid a genocide of humanity.

The day I got my first letter from a fan, I felt like I'd been touched by an angel.

(I'm) much more ... standoffish and hot headed, more intense (than Rashad). Not so dead set on doing the right thing more so than the right now thing; at that age anyway.

Never before have self-suffiency and education been so important, and they are virtually inseparable from survival.