Is it always like that?" I ask, breathless. “No, ” he says. “It's never like that.” I hear the wonder in his voice. And just like that, everything changes.

Life is a gift. Don't forget to live it.

Everything's a risk. Not doing anything is a risk. It's up to you.

For the first time in a long time, I want more than I have.

Flowers for Algernon again? she asks. Doesn't that book always make you cry?One day it won't, I say. I want to be sure to be reading it on that day.

From so high above it, the world seems ordered and deliberate.But I know it's more than that. And less. It is structured and chaotic. Beautiful and strange.

Love is worth everything. Everything.

A photograph is a kind of time machine.

o•cean (ˈōSHən) n. pl. -s. 1. The endless part of yourself you never knew but always suspected was there. [2015, Whittier]

I know she's just trying to protect me, just as I was to protect myself a few short weeks ago, but her words make me aware that the heart in my chest is a muscles like any other. It can hurt.

seriously. “Just because you can’t experience everything doesn’t mean you shouldn’t experience anything.-Nicola Yoon, Everything, Everything

Beyond that door lies an unknown world...where we can become immortal if we choose

School district policies and practices have not kept pace with student and teacher needs.

Courage! Suffering, when it climbs highest, lasts not long.

Unlike the objective of far too many companies, manufacturing is not about a quick exit. It is centered on long-term value creation.

I've written probably over 200 songs that have a verse and a chorus and that's it.

Writing is like washing windows in the sun. With every attempt to perfect clarity, you make a new smear.

My highest aspirations as a songwriter are that people would sing my songs or know songs I've written sometime in as far into the future as I feel comfortable seeing.

Working at home is hard. It tends to give you bad habits. It feels more like you're going to work when you get up in the morning and leave your house and go somewhere.

If you're dressed for my funeral, it's too casual. If it's just street clothes, then you must be scaring the tourists.

I've never had a cup of coffee in my life. I can't even remain in the same room with coffee.