In friendship, we are all debtors. We all owe each other for a thousand small kindnesses, for little moments of grace in the chaos.

Darkness might keep flooding in, but I finally had just enough light to find the way back to myself.

In books, sometimes the foreshadowing is so obvious that you know what’s going to happen. But knowing what happens isn’t the same as knowing how it happens. Getting there is the best part.

I was not beautiful, but I believed I had the possibility of beauty in me.

Only as we mature does affection begin to depend on achievement.

PLENIPOTENTIARY, adj. Having full power. A Minister Plenipotentiary is a diplomatist possessing absolute authority on condition that he never exert it.

An open mind but not an empty head.

In the stars is written the death of every man.

Rebuffed, but always persevering; self-reproached, but ever regaining faith; undaunted, tenacious, the heart of man labors toward immeasurably distant goals.

Delusion about history is a serious matter; it can gravely affect the history that is waiting to be made.

When it comes to success, it will come when it comes. A delay does not mean a denial.

There are so many people, deaf or otherwise abled, who are so talented but overlooked or not given a chance to even get their foot in the door.

The simplest subjects are the immortal ones.