Songs and smells will bring you back to a moment in time more than anything else. It's amazing how much can be conjured with a few notes of a song or a solitary whiff of a room.

Life's not black-and-white. Sometimes the ends justifies the means.

I love him wholly and unconditionally and without reservation. I love him enough to sacrifice a friendship. I love him enough to accept my own happiness and use it, in turn, to make him happy back.

But now we have time. Endless time stretches before us.

And like a favorite old movie, sometimes the sameness in a friend is what you like the most about her.

No, scratch the word "career." Careers are for people who wish to advance. I only want to survive, draw a paycheck.

But I have learned that you make your own happiness, that part of going for what you want means losing something else. And when the stakes are high, the losses can be that much greater.

But I have learned that you can't just create your own timetable and will it to come true.

I don’t know. She was a sweet girl. As sweet as they come. I don’t know why I didn’t love her. It’s something you can’t really control.

What if two people want to be your partner, then what?

I realize thirty is just a number, that you're only as old as you feel and all that. I also realize that in the grand scheme of things, thirty is still young. But it's not that young.

She has always been a bystander in family destruction, never realizing she herself possessed the capacity to inflict it.

In a conflict doesn't win who has more weapons but who knows best use for them

Only a rebuke that 'has something in it' will sting, will have the power to stir our feelings, not the other sort, as we know.

If we could be twice young and twice old we could correct all our mistakes.

My education is the most important thing so I always have to make time for it.

I have no place in my life for someone who is sure he can do everything. --Steelmind

I've grown used to being lonely over the years, so I don't seek to change it. But aren't there many people who are lonely?

In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, believed to have one of the highest rates of sexual violence in the world, girls and women face increased peril on the road to safety.

AIDS is no longer a death sentence for those who can get the medicines. Now it's up to the politicians to create the "comprehensive strategies" to better treat the disease.