If Romeo had never met Juliet, maybe they both would have still been alive, but what they would have been alive for is the question Shakespeare wants us to answer.

The light made the snowballs look yellow. Or at least I hoped that was the cause.

OKAY. So I was going to the library every Saturday. So what? So what? It's not like I was reading books or anything.

(The raindrops) played across the coast all through the night, until the soft new day shrugged itself awake, tried on amethyst and lavender for a while, and finally decided on pale yellow.

We were both chumps. But you know what? It's not so bad when you're chumps together.

Okay, so maybe sometimes the real world is smiles and miracles.

The world is Trouble...and Grace. That is all there is.

She came over and looked at the picture. Then she took my hand. You know what that feels like? Like what the astronauts will feel when they step onto the moon for the very first time.

Creativity is a god who comes around only when he pleases, and it isn't very often. But when he does come around, he sits at my desk and folds his wings and I offer him whatever he wants.

Vengeance is sweet. Vengeance taken when the vengee isn't sure who the venger is, is sweeter still.

Learn everything you can - everything. And then use all that you have learned to grow up too be a wise and good man.

Our situation is intolerable, but what's worseis to sit here and do nothing.

Education is provide enlightenment for one's life.

Chocolate is the first luxury. It has so many things wrapped up in it: Deliciusness in the moment, childhood memories, and that grin-inducing feeling of getting a reward for being good.

I'm personally a moderate and a registered independent, so I'm not strongly Democratic or strongly Republican.

Any time you risk big you often risk losing big. You can win big but you can also lose big, but you have to be willing to take those risks.

My body is beautiful and sacred, and I'm going to celebrate it.

Some of our children are our justifications and some are but our regrets

Money is either a good or bad influence, according to the character of the person who possesses it.

I wanted to be a cattle rancher when I was young, because it was what I knew and I loved it.

Feed on her damask cheek: she pined in thought, And with a green and yellow melancholy She sat like patience on a monument, Smiling at grief