Nothing is purely evil.

His is the same fear most everyone has, everyone for me for the fact that I cannot.

If this is the freedom you speak of... I want no part of it.

I'm changing and I'm terrified of how weak I feel, how vulnerable my flesh and soul has become because of this girl.

Fight, Zinnia, for your soul. You only have one, and one shall remain once you've escaped his clutches... Do not give up on yourself, for strength... it comes... from God.

I learned later that I had smartly discovered the way of defeating anything: believing that you're stronger than you are.

The light will and can never be smothered in darkness.

Gone, but only until we get there

There was that word again.Mature. Was this what maturity was? Giving up on the things we wanted because we knew we’d never get them?

There is no greater tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of the law and in the name of justice.

In charting our course to the future, we are mindful of our path from the past.

She had bullets in her eyes and they fired.

In mathematics alone each generations adds a new story to the old structure.

I didn't take the decision [to get married] lightly. I ventured into it realistically. But life takes you places you wouldn't have expected. I'm really content with what was in the cards for me.

Imagine the choices you'd make if you had no fear-of falling, of losing, of being alone, of disapproval.

A BURNING DESIRE TO BE, AND TO DO is the starting point from which the dreamer must take off. Dreams are not born of indifference, laziness, or lack of ambition.

Kindness and politeness are not overrated at all. They're underused.