Sometimes you can save someone’s whole world just by smiling at them. Kindness is one of those things that has immense value to the person experiencing it.

Don't put off happiness you can have today. Tomorrow is a hope, not a promise

Blake took her face in his hands. “You let me touch you. Kiss you. Your skin? It feels like piano keys. My hands know just where to go.

You make the rest of the beautiful things in the world cry for even trying at all. You make it hard for me to breathe.

There is something about me, doll face. It’s between my legs, and I do believe a few minutes ago you were praying to it.

Don't tie your success to anything other than what's inside you

In that moment? I knew you were sent to me, that I'd been given nothing from the people in my life, but I think from God, or whoever is in charge, I got you.

True love, the kind that lasts forever, is very rare indeed. It takes compromise, continued growth, and trust.

His heart overflowed with good intentions but his fists felt best covered in blood.

But if all this time between them had taught him anything, it was that they were orbiting the same fate. Together, always together, even when physically apart.

You want to be bad, angel? I can teach you every position it comes in

The victim mindset produces a delusion of fault and blame that blinds you from the simple truth of cause and effect.

Don't let who you were talk you out of who you are becoming.

Why don’t we have libertarian anarchy? Why does government exist? The answer implicit in previous chapters is that government as a whole exists because most people believe it is necessary.

A meal of bread, cheese and beer constitutes the perfect food.

Obama's presidency hasn't been dedicated to achieving economic growth in the short term, or about creating jobs.

If I don't see myself as a victim, then I'm not a victim.

There is no worse death than the end of hope.

Even your own arms, deep inside your body feel foriegn to you, feel that they do not belong to you. Here lies an important secret. Butoh's radical essence is hidden here.

You'd be surprised how many movie stars still care about the work.

Though I am not always responsible for what happens to me, I am responsible for how I handle what happens to me.