Sometimes you have to give the hurt a noise and let it out. If you don’t, it fills you up with its emptiness.

Books were a safe place, a world apart from my own. No matter what had happened that day, that year, there was always a story in which someone overcame their darkest hour. I wasn't alone.

Whatever happened, I'd met my person, the one my soul connected to.

Wanting to cry doesn't mean you can.

I’d waited an eternity for this. I’d have waited all over again if I had to. I was meant to kiss this boy, designed to be held by him.

Elizabeth nodded, looking too dejected to do much more. “Can she just go back to him?” she pleaded. “He’s dying. She’s dying. They can’t have a life together, but at least they could have th

Why spend a lifetime wishing for things a lot of people already possess in their lives? Your greatness lies in persistently going after your desires.

Depressed people do things they wouldn't ordinarily do.

I cannot say whether things will get better if we change what I can say is they must change if they are to get better.

Trevino is in a league by himself. We don't even count him. We figure when you come in second, you're a winner.

I say, choose faith. Choose faith over doubt, choose faith over fear, choose faith over the unknown and the unseen, and choose faith over pessimism.

Don't go to bed with any woman crazier than you are.

I feel like a teenager myself, so I appreciate it when the kids think you're all right.

When all combine in every way to make everything easier, people will want difficulty. I conceived it as my task to make difficulties everywhere.

Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.

Law is nothing unless close behind it stands a warm, living public opinion.