No connection can ever be broken if love holds tight at both ends.

He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.

If you spend your time hoping someone will suffer the consequences for what they did to your heart, then you're allowing them to hurt you a second time in your mind.

There comes a time in your life when you have to choose to turn the page, write another book or simply close it.

A true gentleman is one that apologizes anyways, even though he has not offended a lady intentionally. He is in a class all of his own because he knows the value of a woman's heart.

A best friend is the only one that walks into your life when the world has walked out.

The most confused you will ever get is when you try to convince your heart and spirit of something your mind knows is a lie.

When you loved someone and had to let them go, there will always be that small part of yourself that whispers, "What was it that you wanted and why didn't you fight for it?

The most introspective of souls are often those that have been hurt the most.

When someone you love says goodbye you can stare long and hard at the door they closed and forget to see all the doors God has open in front of you.

If he can't handle you at your worst then he does not deserve you at your best. Real love means seeing beyond the words spoken out of pain, and instead seeing a person's soul.

Our memories are card indexes consulted and then returned in disorder by authorities whom we do not control.

Perhaps wars weren't won anymore. Maybe they went on forever. Maybe it was another Hundred Years' War.

When we use this word fun, it sort of bangs up the ordinary and the extraordinary altogether.

I took the world into me, rearranged it, and sent it back out as a question: "Do you like me?

With Instapaper, I can take a few months off. I can't stop publishing 'The Magazine' for two months and work on something else.

The good man is the only excellent musician, because he gives forth a perfect harmony not with a lyre or other instrument but with the whole of his life.

The multitude of the sick shall not make us deny the existence of health.

Never, never mind your bleeding heart.

The way you get democracy to function is by informing the public.

If sequestered pain made a sound, the atmosphere would be humming all the time.