It's not the time we spend but how we spend the time that truly tells our story.

If you expect nothing, you can never be disappointed.

We are often so distracted by the internal war between what we want to do and what we have to do that we overlook what we need to do.

You did what your heart told you to do,' Brain complimented. 'It is what leaders, not followers, do.

friends are like stars. You do not see all the time, but you know they are there

Breaking free, or not, is usually determined by whether you want to get somewhere slowly or nowhere fast.

And though the symptons of lovesickness may be many, they all share a single cause and single cure: you.

If you want sympathy, look for a friend, but if you want honesty, an enemy might be the best friend you ever had.

Talk is cheap. If it wasn't, people might not toss around 'I love you' like a marked-down phrase in a sales bin.

Life sucks, then you die. Then it sucks again.

She was a dead girl having the worst panic attack shed ever had. Not because she was afraid of dying, but because she knew that she would never live again.

Love without truth is sentimentality

Alma had been falling in love with a crazy terrier that thought “stay” mean to take off like a rocket. Gaby knew he’d already taken off with Alma’s heart.

The state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life.

Today the kids that are out now they make a hit record and they put them right out on the stage with 10,000 people out there and they don't know anything about the business yet.

It's fun to be sarcastic, but now I'm able to express myself in a way that's much more sincere.

Characterization requires a constant back-and-forth between the exterior events of the story and the inner life of the character.

A major difficulty is that the answer to the Riddle of the Sphinx is partly a product of the answers that we already have given to the riddle in its various forms.

Not only did he [Dean Acheson] not suffer fools gladly, he did not suffer them at all.

You have sat too long for any good you have been doing. Depart, I say, and let us have done with you. In the name of God, go!

I've several times had jobs that I thought were going to be my big break, and it didn't pan out.