It was as if my whole life revolved around trying to judge the appropriate point in a conversation to say goodbye

Everybody has to start somewhere. You have your whole future ahead of you. Perfection doesn't happen right away.

Dreams come from the past, not from the future. Dreams shouldn't control you--you should control them.

Thinking about spaghetti that boils eternally but is never done is a sad, sad thing.

Death is not the opposite of life, but a part of it.

With each passing moment I'm becoming part of the past. There is no future for me, just the past steadily accumulating.

You can see a person's whole life in the cancer they get.

I said nothing for a time, just ran my fingertips along the edge of the human-shaped emptiness that had been left inside me.

Sometimes we don't need words. Rather, it's words that need us.

He sometimes wondered if she had become involved with him just so that she could cry in someone's arms. Maybe she can't cry alone, and that's why she needs me.

Ordinary imperfect people, always choose similarly imperfect people as friends.

Man is the highest essence of man, hence with the categorical imperative to overthrow all relations in which man is a debased, enslaved, abandoned, despicable essence.

O Lord! Unhappy is the man whom man can make unhappy.

I don't understand why some things are talked about and others are not. I don't know why I think I can make any kind of difference. All I know is that I want to.

I want the people of America to be able to work less for the government, and more for themselves

Life was a fool's errand, carrying news to the worms.

When a cricketer gets hit in the private parts, he hopes the pain will go away very soon but the swelling doesn't!

There is no problem that is not improved by effort, and no effort that is too paltry to be worth undertaking.

Why is it that men who can go through severe accidents, air raids, and any other major crisis always seems to think that they are at death's door when they have a simple head cold?

Never are we nearer the Light than when the darkness is deepest.