Life is just this way, broken, and I am crazy to hope for something else.

But, like ivy, we grow where there is room for us.

Some people need a red carpet rolled out in front of them in order to walk forward into friendship. They can't see the tiny outstretched hands all around them, everywhere, like leaves on trees.

That day I carried the dream around like a full glass of water, moving gracefully so I would not lose any of it.

What a terrible mistake to let go of something wonderful for something real.

I laughed and said, Life is easy. What I meant was, Life is easy with you here, and when you leave, it will be hard again.

Don't wait to be sure. Move, move, move.

We come from long lines of people destined never to meet.

... we had once called out hello into the cauldron of the world and then run away before anyone could respond.

Inelegantly, and without my consent, time passed.

I cried in English, I cried in french, I cried in all the languages, because tears are the same all around the world.

A visionary is a leader of excellence who sees what others do not see, who achieves for now and plans for the future, who positively impacts different generations and raises up other visionaries.

Remember sixteen - when all the world was new and your life stretched before you like fresh snow waiting for your footprints.

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

People always make mistakes when they fancy themselves exceptions.

National literature begins with fables and ends with novels.

No one uses a ribbon typewriter any more, but your final draft is not the time to try to wring a few more sheets out of your inkjet cartridge.

Belief fuels passion, and passion rarely fails.

We don't like to kill our unborn; we need them to grow up and fight our wars.

Is not, indeed, every man a student, and do not all things exist for the student's behoof?

Fond, flatt'ring world, adieu!