It is much harder to lie to someone's face. But. It is also much harder to tell the truth to someone's face.

Remember that at any given moment there are a thousand things you can love.

Life tells you to take the elevator, but love tells you to take the stairs.

Kindness connects to who you are, while niceness connects to how you want to be seen.

The older I get, the more I lose my ability to breathe.

A photograph it a souvenir of a memory. It is not a moment. It is the looking at the photograph that becomes the moment. Your own moment.

The words that matter always stay.

motif, n. You don’t love me as much as I love you. You don’t love me as much as I love you. You don’t love me as much as I love you.

It was a mistake," you said. But the cruel thing was, it felt like the mistake was mine, for trusting you.

You have to believe there are kisses and laughs and risks worth taking.

Things that matter are not easy. Feelings of happiness are easy. Happiness is not. Flirting is easy. Love is not. Saying you’re friends is easy. Being friends is not.

The Kremlin has made a habit of accusing others of crimes of which it has been accused of itself [228]

My inheritance is grief and sunlight and the ability to choose which to hold on to.

I follow Jesus not because I don't have any doubts. I follow Jesus because in my doubt, He has always been tender with me.

We are the same, you and I. Whether samurai or night-hawk, the Suruga Dainagon or member of the Toudouza, it makes no difference. My sword is the proof....

God made everything out of nothing, but the nothingness shows through.

Learning French is trivial: the word for horse is cheval, and everything else follows in the same way.

When you love someone, you don't have a choice. Love takes your choices away. - Clary Fray

I hate having people sit in on meetings.

A lot of good things start in Virginia; a lot of good things have started in Virginia. We're no strangers to firsts.

True artists are prophets. I don't want to be that prophetic in that sense because it's so lonely.