Reading takes solitude and it takes focus.

You would be amazed by what you can give up, lose, or break, and yet still be a person who gets happy over brownies.

...handsome people are always interesting to watch. But a handsome person in crisis is riveting.

You need to grab your dream out of the sky like it's a kite and pinch the string through your fingers until you reach the spool.

I myself am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions.

I can't tell you how much I love Target and Costco, that kind of culture, because it's something I never felt a part of. I've always felt like a tourist because I have never fit in anywhere.

Should I just sit down, right here at carousel seven, and shake until somebody's arms are around me and they're saying, 'It's okay, I'm here, I'm here, come with me to the institute.

You are allowed to be alive. You are allowed to be somebody different. You are allowed to not say goodbye to anybody or explain a single thing to anyone, ever.

His laugh is made if porch swings and lemonade

But I can also write in crappy motel rooms, while standing in line, or sitting in the dentist's chair.

I wouldn't want to waste any of my brain cells on forgiving if it's holding me back.

A single-minded purpose gives sacred strength to achieve the dream.

Good Friends Don't Let You Do Stupid Things.. Alone

Scoundrels will be corrupt and unconcerned citizens apathetic under even the best constitution.

To possess something and not know its value is torturous

Wine ...moderately drunken it doth quicken a man's wits, It doth comfort the heart.

I would bet that the average teenager in this country has not used the word 'wisdom' in the past year

Strength is the product of struggle, you must do what others don't to achieve what others won't.

Women always try to tame themselves as they get older, but the ones who look best are often a bit wilder.

The best gifts in life will never be found under a Christmas tree, those gifts are friends, family, children and the one you love.

JAQUES: Rosalind is your love's name? ORLANDO: Yes, just. JAQUES: I do not like her name. ORLANDO: There was no thought of pleasing you when she was christened.