Life would be fabric-softener, tuna-salad-on-white, PTA-meeting normal.

You would be amazed by what you can give up, lose, or break, and yet still be a person who gets happy over brownies.

...handsome people are always interesting to watch. But a handsome person in crisis is riveting.

You need to grab your dream out of the sky like it's a kite and pinch the string through your fingers until you reach the spool.

I myself am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions.

I can't tell you how much I love Target and Costco, that kind of culture, because it's something I never felt a part of. I've always felt like a tourist because I have never fit in anywhere.

Should I just sit down, right here at carousel seven, and shake until somebody's arms are around me and they're saying, 'It's okay, I'm here, I'm here, come with me to the institute.

You are allowed to be alive. You are allowed to be somebody different. You are allowed to not say goodbye to anybody or explain a single thing to anyone, ever.

His laugh is made if porch swings and lemonade

But I can also write in crappy motel rooms, while standing in line, or sitting in the dentist's chair.

I wouldn't want to waste any of my brain cells on forgiving if it's holding me back.

A forest is not a wilderness, but a community of souls who speak to one another on the wind.

You can become a model of a perfect man or a devoted husband and a father in order to show the role of the a man’s responsibility for the family

The hard part about one being tough yet meek is the illusion of being a punching bag.

I will build a great, great wall on our southern border, and I will make Mexico pay for that wall. Mark my words.

When individuals and nations have once got in their heads the abstract concept of full-blown liberty, there is nothing like it in its uncontrollable strength.

Old people think young people haven't learned about love. Young people think old people have forgotten about love.

For really, dreaming is the well-mannered people's way of committing suicide.

You can't praise what you don't prize.

When I'm governor... I'll be the first governor with a listed telephone number.

I think goodness is about how person behaves to person, and also person to world, to nature.