My back hurts. My legs ache. I'm only four!

People are like music, some speak the truth and others are just noise.

Alcohol is really just the liquid version of Photoshop.

Whatever you do, always give 100%. Unless you're donating blood.

Friendship is so weird. You just pick a human you've met and you're like, 'Yep, I like this one,' and you just do stuff with them.

I'm a nut, but not just a nut.

Common sense is like deodorant. The people who need it most never use it.

You know how funerals are not for the dead, they’re for the living? Bachelor parties are not for the groom, they’re for the uncommitted.

You can tell how boring a person is by the lack of fear in their eyes when someone is flipping through photos on their phone.

Just beat my record for most consecutive days without dying.

The secret is to have a sense of yourself, your real self, your unique self. And not just once in a while, or once a day, but all through the day, the week and life.

If you have a very strong will to travel, the road will suddenly appear before you!

The right to hope is the most powerful human motivation I know.

We may never understand what leads anybody to terrorize their fellow human beings. Such violence, such evil is senseless. It's beyond reason.

God loves me so that I might make him— his ways, his salvation, his glory, and his greatness—known among all nations.

Nothing would more contribute to make a man wise than to have always an enemy in his view.

I like melancholy. I like to pretend that I'm alone in the world and I'm just sort of abandoned.

I write novels because there is something I don't understand in reality.

I never have a problem with being black. I have a problem with the easy association of what that means to some people.

Happiness and joy are inner qualities that can't be shaken by outer circumstances because they are inherent within the core Self.