Love is only made more valuable by the risk of heartbreak.

The true measure of a man is how he treats you when others are not looking.

I'm done. I don't need anything more out of life. I have you, and that's enough.

Incredible how quickly a world can change. How my entire person, our friendship, can be reduced to nothing, with just one confession.

(Regarding Marriage) Both people need to care deeply about the other person, to put the other’s needs before their own, and to make a daily commitment to that person to stick it out.

The heart is stubborn. It holds onto love despite what sense and emotion tells it. And it is often, in the battle of those three, the most brilliant of all.

A child is the quickest to trust because they have no concept of the depravity of our species.

Security is a strange thing, a myth that the brain allows in exchange for a brief moment of peace.

Marrying the wrong person only denies you both a chance at your soul mate.

I stare across the table at Jeremy, and wonder if I will make it through our first date without trying to kill him.

No one is normal. Everyone is just pretending to be normal.

Knowledge without application is simply knowledge. Applying the knowledge to one’s life is wisdom — and that is the ultimate virtue

I think it's difficult for young people to acknowledge being smart, to knowledge being a reader. I see kids who are embarrassed to read books. They're embarrassed to have people see them doing it.

I go by instinct - I don't worry about experience.

I'm not a pastor; I've never been on staff at a church.

I tried, it was hard, I quit, the end. Story of my life.

There are relatively few things that kill people that are young other than car accidents and suicide.

I write books that seem more suitable for children, and that's OK with me. They are a better audience and tougher critics. Kids tell you what they think, not what they think they should think.

Love is an angel disguised as lust.

Every year it changes, sometimes I'm good at the 50m, sometimes I'm terrible, it really depends. I'm still not sure what my best event is.

If someone is calling for democracy, he is calling for an end of a dictatorship and if this is the will of the people, this could also mean overthrowing the regime.