Peace is not merely a vacuum left by the ending of wars. It is the creation of two eternal principles, justice and freedom.

Grit is the persistence in following your own destiny

A writer must be fearless. A writer has to be like a clawed animal." -The Carrie Diaries pg. 337

Pick yourself up when you're feeling down. No one else is likely to.

It is the beginning of all true criticism of our time to realize that it has really nothing to say, at the very moment when it has invented so tremendous a trumpet for saying it.

You can’t go through life not listening to music.

He looked again. Longer this time. She may have ‘forgotten’ to put a bra on that morning. Another oops. “Are you kidding me with that?” he asked.

Maybe someone will know I didn't weave crowns to draw blood; that I faught against mockery; that I did fill the high tide of my soul with truth. I repaid vileness with doves.

For the most part, I hang out in my back yard with my dog, but there's no paparazzi trying to check that out.

humanity is a cancer on the body of the world

The world is a living image of God.