Life is a gift. Don't forget to live it.

Everything's a risk. Not doing anything is a risk. It's up to you.

For the first time in a long time, I want more than I have.

Flowers for Algernon again? she asks. Doesn't that book always make you cry?One day it won't, I say. I want to be sure to be reading it on that day.

From so high above it, the world seems ordered and deliberate.But I know it's more than that. And less. It is structured and chaotic. Beautiful and strange.

Is it always like that?" I ask, breathless. “No, ” he says. “It's never like that.” I hear the wonder in his voice. And just like that, everything changes.

Love is worth everything. Everything.

A photograph is a kind of time machine.

o•cean (ˈōSHən) n. pl. -s. 1. The endless part of yourself you never knew but always suspected was there. [2015, Whittier]

I know she's just trying to protect me, just as I was to protect myself a few short weeks ago, but her words make me aware that the heart in my chest is a muscles like any other. It can hurt.

seriously. “Just because you can’t experience everything doesn’t mean you shouldn’t experience anything.-Nicola Yoon, Everything, Everything

Anticipating pain was like enduring it twice. Why not anticipate pleasure instead?

All I want to do is change the world.

Anytime that the Arizona Cardinals play football, I scream at the top of my lungs at the television. And I have certain dances that I do.

I suppose I am reluctant about being any sort of 'star' and I didn't particularly want to be portrayed as one.

Fugitive slaves were rare then, and as a fugitive slave lecturer, I had the advantage of being the first one out.

The mystical kundalini goes the other direction. It starts at the base of the spine, at the root chakra and goes up.

Every extension of the functions and power of the State beyond its primary duty of maintaining peace and justice should be scrutinized with jealous vigilance.

Middle names are kind of like vice presidents: It's a fine distinction and certainly an honor, but you're never not aware that someone else got the real job.

I laid my face to the smooth face of the marble and howled my loss into the cold salt rain.

Aside from Donald Trump, polls find [Hillary] Clinton to be the least-liked presidential candidate in recent history.