Spring is a time to make up a big bouquet of flowers for someone you love, or are trying to love, or are in love with.

Just because you're breathing, doesn't mean you're alive.

Becoming a man means doing the right thing even though it may be hard or difficult. Boys do what is easiest. A man does what is right, whether easy or not.

Only you can know the difference between your wants and your needs, and your sacrifice of your life's time to both.

Reading teaches us the nuances of humanity. To find the beauty of what is moral and ethical in your own actions and discover the strange subtlety of what it is to question why you should exist.

A good man lives for the joy in life and the happiness of being alive, not shackled to the wants of the future or the regrets of the past.

You know there's got to be a better way of life - somewhere, sometime, somehow - but you're not exactly sure what better is.

Sometimes we make being happy so difficult. And being thankful such a chore.

Time. Either you are for it or against it. So be here now. Not later.

Sometimes I feel as if I'm only a doorman awaiting the arrival of her royal majesty.

I gather the last remnants of the evening’s breeze, so cool and lazy within my arms, feeling it curl up like a small and innocent kitten.

Do not let your confidence or love be easily removed or frightened by the rage of a warrior

When you're dead, you're dead, and that's that.

It's all about communication and a dialogue between individuals - get rid of the labels, get rid of the shame, get rid of the stigmas and just be your most authentic self.

Teenagers who are never required to vacuum are living in one.

Peace is our gift to each other.

Other books we may read and criticise. To the Scriptures we must bow the entire soul, with all its faculties.

Well, I was going to school in Germany. And in my free time I was dancing.

I love all the mentoring, the public-private partnership ideas.

A cat that jumps on a hot stove will never jump on a hot stove again. Neither will it jump on a cold stove.

If there is one subject in this world worthy of being discussed, worthy of being understood, it is the question of intellectual liberty. Without that, we are simply painted clay.