If you want to know how someone really feels, you almost never have to ask.

But the problem with looking back when you should be walking ahead is that you usually end up walking into something that hurts.

But sometimes it's the sunshine that frightens us more than the big black shadows.

When you find someone who makes you smile and laugh, when you find someone who makes you feel safe…you shouldn’t let that person go just because you’re afraid.

I waited for a long time and there was nothing but the pain of wanting something I couldn't seem to find.

You don’t have to be sad to miss someone and wish they were still in your life.

Good things, by their nature, are fleeting. It’s those that bring us grief that linger.

Love is always real, even when it doesn’t last.

All men have the stars, but they are not the same things for different people.

Jealousy smells like the water in the bottom of a flower vase after the flowers have died.

When everything changes we learn who we really are. What’s really important. What we want most. We discover the truth in moments of disarray.

When people want to be liked for what they did, they should stop.

You can't have understanding without having empathy, and you can't have empathy without losing money.

Beauty is a life-long evolution.

Any business is the same in the beginning because nobody knows where it's going to ride.

A man who cannot control his temper is not very likely to control his passions.

Skip your brain and go right to the gut.

The most vital quality a soldier can possess is self-confidence.

You can say that climbers suffer the same as the other riders, but they suffer in a different way. You feel the pain, but you're glad to be there.

Democracy is more cruel than wars or tyrants.

I like to think of myself as a fiction writer who liked art enough to write about it for a while, and then went on to his fiction.