Parents. Honestly. Sometimes they really do think the world revolves around them.

Sometimes it's easy to lose faith in people. And sometimes one act of kindness is all it takes to give you hope again.

Belief means nothing without actions

I want to be with one person in my life. I want to know that the guy I spend the rest of my life with is the first person I share something so intimate and exciting with.

What’s the good of being true to your religion on the outside, if you don’t change what’s on the inside, were it really counts ?

I just don't know what I'd do without a brain, Simone!" I say. "I mean, what's a person without one?

You? Nervous? Man, you've got more balls than any girl I've ever known!' 'You've known some weird girls, then, " I say, raising an eyebrow at him.

Let thy holy temple be thy body.

Sorry if I can't be the right monster for you Bella.

The cat is such a perfect symbol of beauty and superiority that it seems scarcely possible for any true aesthete and civilised cynic to do other than worship it.

In my everyday life, I can be as square as I want. But when it comes to movies and telling stories, I can't. I've got to be radical, and on some level, that's what I like to do.

Half the guys drafted in front of me are working at Target right now.

In durance vile 1here must I wake and weep, And all my frowsy couch in sorrow steep.

People are lonely. The network is seductive. But if we are always on, we may deny ourselves the rewards of solitude.

It takes a special kind of stubbornness to succeed as an entrepreneur

The flaw in, say, austerity, is that its success is predicated on the relative exactitude of math rather than the shifting, liquid imperfection of peoples lives.

We can often endure an extra pound of pain far more easily than we can suffer the withdrawal of an ounce of accustomed pleasure.