It didn't matter what anyone else saw in me. For the first time, I felt like I was seeing myself.

With you, it's... I don't even know how to say it. It's like you're a work of art. Every time I'm with you, I see something new. Something beautiful.

I chose to spend the day with you. And I'm choosing now to have dinner with you.

No, I'm not one of those guys. I'd never get anything done if I rescued everyone who needed it. But I do like to help people I care about. That's why I'm here with you right now.

I had a whole evening planned. I was hoping to sweep you off your feet. Like those guys in your stupid books.

I'm so sorry about all you're going through, but I'm not sorry that it brought you to me.

Life's messy, " he agreed. "But sometimes amazing things can happen, even when it seems like it's all falling apart.

Just so you're clear, that wasn't a pity kiss.

Don’t allow time to while away but take hold of time and make a demand on it to bring forth offspring.

To achieve great things we must live as though we were never going to die.

The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.

The human form is a microcosm of the universe. All that supposedly exists outside us in reality exists in us. The world is in you and can become known in you, as you.

I loved him like a fever. Then he left. He kicked through love like it was dust and he kept on walking.

It doesn't take time to think right. It only takes the willingness to do so.

I suppose all writers are crazy, but if they are any good, I believe they have a terrible honesty.

If you economically empower a woman, she represents enormous opportunity that can actually be transformative not only for her family and for her community, but at the aggregate level for the economy.

Again I resume the long lesson: how small a thing can be pleasing, how little in this hard world it takes to satisfy the mind and bring it to its rest.