Sometimes it take courage to leave.

I didn't know how to say goodbye. Words were stupid. They said so little. Yet they opened up holes you could fall into and never climb out of again.

When I wrote, I felt better, as if I had remade the world all of a piece, the way I wanted it to be, not the way it was.

A person has to be strong in life. A person must practice strength, even if they don't feel it.

Most of our miseries we bring on ourselves. And they're the sum of our own stupidity.

A person doesn't ask permission to fall in love; not even of themselves.

You don't trade in the devil you know for the one you don't know.

Because I had already resolved that if you're afraid of love, your heart will break anyway, only in not half so nice a fashion as it does when you let somebody love you.

When I write I am the real me.

The most important thing we ever have to learn in life is to live with our choices.

Are all American girls as daft as you, Rachel?" "I hope so," I said.

If you cheat on reason with emotion you will go bankrupt.

Your mission is to find a product or service that can positively impact the lives of 1 billion people because that's the game we're playing today.

The masters are men like us who have evolved ahead of us and come to the end of the evolution as a human being on planet earth.

There are three fashion periods: the past, the present and Mae West.

Nothing the writer can do is ever enough.

That is not respecting our democracy, using the State Department as a concierge for foreign donations, not really respecting our American democracy.

Somewhere, a long way away, people are doing sensible things like mowing lawns and digging gardens.

When lifting weights, nothing feels better than achieving a high point on the bench press with no help from your spotter.

I have to say that I've always believed perfectionism is more of a disease than a quality. I do try to go with the flow but I can't let go.

Everybody should be mad but anger only takes you so far. At some point, you'll have outrage fatigue and burn out.