One of the hardest things for a writer to do is delete words.

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.

The greatest health shall be happiness.

Nature never appeals to intelligence until habit and instinct are useless. There is no intelligence where there is no need of change.

When was the last time you woke up and wished you'd had just one more drink the night before?I have never regretted not drinking. Say this to yourself, and you'll get through anything.

The more sinful and guilty a person tends to feel, the less chance there is that he will be a happy, healthy, or law-abiding citizen. He will become a compulsive wrong-doer.

If you have to read to cheer yourself up, read biographies of writers who went insane.

Testimony requires the nurturing by the prayer of faith, the hungering for the word of God in the scriptures, and the obedience to the truth.

Giving debt relief to people that really need it, that's what foreclosure is.

It wasn't that I ever knew I'd be at the Met for 20 years, or 30 years, or 40 years, or anything like that

They more than do their work, they take pride in it. Like Cinna.

Many who later lost faith in Fidel Castro can remember how they once admired the man who needed just a dozen men to launch the Cuban revolution.