Marriage is love put to it's ultimate test - the grindstone of life. Where the idealism of love meets the everydayness of marriage.

Just because you're breathing, doesn't mean you're alive.

Becoming a man means doing the right thing even though it may be hard or difficult. Boys do what is easiest. A man does what is right, whether easy or not.

Only you can know the difference between your wants and your needs, and your sacrifice of your life's time to both.

Reading teaches us the nuances of humanity. To find the beauty of what is moral and ethical in your own actions and discover the strange subtlety of what it is to question why you should exist.

A good man lives for the joy in life and the happiness of being alive, not shackled to the wants of the future or the regrets of the past.

You know there's got to be a better way of life - somewhere, sometime, somehow - but you're not exactly sure what better is.

Sometimes we make being happy so difficult. And being thankful such a chore.

Time. Either you are for it or against it. So be here now. Not later.

Sometimes I feel as if I'm only a doorman awaiting the arrival of her royal majesty.

I gather the last remnants of the evening’s breeze, so cool and lazy within my arms, feeling it curl up like a small and innocent kitten.

CUSTOMER (to her friend): What's this literary criticism section? Is it for books that complain about other books?

Lara Jean, why do you have to remember every little thing? It's not healthy.

I think children have a degree of wisdom totally unknown by adults

Art has the power to transform, to illuminate, to educate, inspire and motivate.

I believe that justices must recognize that our Constitution is an 18th-century document that needs to be applied in the context of the 21st century.

Believe the incredible and you can do the impossible.

I came out of Capitol Hill. Well, that's just not an ordinary background for a writer of the ordinary American sort.

I'm not afraid to go out on a limb, style-wise or with lyrics. I don't ever want to be afraid to cut those types of songs because radio might not play it.

SCIENCE! thou fair effusive ray From the great source of mental Day, Free, generous, and refin'd! Descend with all thy treasures fraught, Illumine each bewilder'd thought, And bless my labour'g mind.

Motherhood changed me because it is so fundamental what you're doing for another person. And you are able to do it even though it takes a lot.