Some people make you want to be a better person, and that, for me, is the purest form of love.

Do you wait for things to happen, or do you make them happen yourself? I believe in writing your own story.

I haven’t been very impressed lately.By people, or places, or the way someone said he loved me and then slowly changed his mind.

I am not a broken heart. I am not collarbones or drunken letters never sent. I am not the way I leave or left or didn’t know how to handle anything, at any time, and I am not your fault.

You were the hardest year of my life and I’ve never been so happy. What does that say about me?

Sometimes you need to sit lonely on the floor in a quiet room in order to hear your own voice and not let it drown in the noise of others.

I am not collarbones or drunken letters never sent. I am not the way I leave or left or didn’t know how to handle anything, at any time, and I am not your fault.

Throwing yourself into the purse of a dream is the biggest adventure you can take on.

You can start anew at any given moment. Life is just the passage of time and it’s up to you to pass it as you please.

Fear is the thing that makes the heart grow.

I just want to be someone, to mean something to anyone…

Power in the hands of the reformer is no less potentially corrupting than in the hands of the oppressor.

But in the great hour Heaven sent the German people a great man, Herr von Cuno.

There are certain pressures and things that change your life to a degree that, in the cost benefit analysis that constantly goes on, sometimes makes you think, 'Maybe I should just leave.

I think in Russia, there's a lot of storytelling and anecdotes.

Responsibility is something you take as a matter of fact, like breathing air; living without it is impossible, but do not think about it too much.

When I was nine, I wrote a vow of celibacy on a piece of paper and ate it.

I had been reading a fabulous book [The Man Verdi, by Frank Walker] about [Giuseppe] Verdi, whom I adore.

The more you eliminate the inefficient use of information, the better it is for productivity.

Disappointment requires adequate planning.

Humility is really important because it keeps you fresh and new.