Just because a person chooses to express themselves in an extreme way doesn't mean they have an extreme personality.

Because if you take a risk, you just might find what you're looking for.

I want revenge, but I don't want to screw up my karma.

No one can save me except myself.

Because my life isn't going to wait around while I figure out how to make it work.

That's the cool thing about having a best friend. They know what your pain feels like already, so you don't have to explain it.

Somewhere underneath it all, I know he doesn't deserve to take up space in my brain.

She's not going to let go until she sees for herself that there's nothing left to hold on to.

But all I really learned is that money is powerful enough to bend the rules. Rhiannon:0, Dad:1.

I wish my life were a movie and I could take it into the editing room and totally cut this part out. And some other parts. Some other parts definitely need to be cut.

Hi, ’ Jake said. ‘I met you earlier today, but you were a lot younger then.’ ‘I was a lot younger ten minutes ago.

Many are ambitious of saying grand things, that is, of being grandiloquent.

Al Qaeda is still a threat. We cannot pretend somehow that because Barack Hussein Obama got elected as president, suddenly everything is going to be OK.

I am a woman meant for a man, but I never found a man who could compete.

To me, the decathlon is its own little society and I am part of that culture.

The hands of every clock are shears, trimming us away scrap by scrap, and every time piece with a digital readout blinks us towards implosion.

Development does not start with goods; it starts with people and their education, organization, and discipline. Without these three, all resources remain latent, untapped, potential.

You can't be a proper comic unless you've been out on stage and felt the fear.

The more profound problem, however, is the degree to which many academic intellectuals, especially in the humanities, have lost their ability to distinguish the 'state' from 'society'.

My parents gave up a lot to bring me up in the little house on the prairie, and I wasn't prepared to make those sacrifices, nor was the generation before me and the generation after.