If we knew the truth, we'd see it; all else is system and outskirts.

The value of things is not the time they last, but the intensity with which they occur. That is why there are unforgettable moments and unique people!

Life is what we make of it. Travel is the traveler. What we see isn't what we see but what we are.

My soul is a hidden orchestra; I know not what instruments, what fiddlestrings and harps, drums and tamboura I sound and clash inside myself. All I hear is the symphony.

The slope takes you to the windmill, but effort takes you nowhere.

We never love anyone. What we love is the idea we have of someone. It's our own concept—our own selves—that we love.

There are no norms. All people are exceptions to a rule that doesn’t exist.

Everything interests me, but nothing holds me.

I am nothing. I'll never be anything. I couldn't want to be something. Apart from that, I have in me all the dreams in the world.

It's been a long time since I've been me.

I bear the wounds of all the battles I avoided.

And Sky?” he asked, his voice soft. “Yes?”“Maybe you don’t need me, but I need you.

What do you think you're doing?

There's nothing wrong with reading a book you love over and over.

It's just amazing that there are so many prejudices even now.

Foresight turns out to be a critical adaptive strategy for times of great stress.

There needs to be a similar degree of flexibility and generosity in the recognition of the humaneness and worth of people who we generally consider as adversaries.

There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.

I'm on the Zoloft to keep from killing y'all.

If Christ's message could be distilled down to one line, that line would have to do with kindness and inclusiveness, not rules and divisiveness.

In many parts of the Bible Belt, the divorce rate was discovered to be roughly 50 percent above the national average.