If those are your friends, you've got no need for enemies.

My heart spasmed among the peonies like a trout.

I did Lassie for six years and I never had anybody come up to me and say, 'It made me want to be a farmer.

Love is when you have a really amazing piece of cake, and it’s the very last piece, but you let him have it.

Silence is a protective coating over pain.

There is nothing as dreamy and poetic, nothing as radical, subversive, and psychedelic, as mathematics.

A good problem is something you don't know how to solve. That's what makes it a good puzzle and a good opportunity.

Always do what you're afraid to do. ... I will prove myself strong when they think I am sick. I will prove myself brave when they think I am weak.

Love is when you give someone else the power to destroy you, and you trust them not to do it.

It is the story that matters, not just the ending.

The problem is I can think whatever I think but I still feel the way I feel.

I found myself wishing that we could live like the birds and move through nature without hurting it ourselves.

We had and incident. I took care of it.""Really." Jace's voice dripped sarcasm. "Do you even know how to use that knife, Clarissa? Without poking a hole in yourself or any innocent bystanders?

Success is not worth rejoicing over, failure is not worth grieving over.

I really believe there are things nobody would see if I didn't photograph them.

No, I don't have to practice that grunt. You just do it. Once you're in character, you're in character. You don't sit there purposely thinking, Well, I'll grunt here, or I'll groan there.

My greatest wish is to write in such a manner that all may think they have written it themselves.

And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.

Never has man reached his destination by persistence in deviation from the straight path.

America’s true power lies not in its will to dominate but in its ability to inspire.

It is observed of gold, by an old epigrammatist, that to have it is to be in fear, and to want it is to be in sorrow.