Talk is cheap. If it wasn't, people might not toss around 'I love you' like a marked-down phrase in a sales bin.

If you expect nothing, you can never be disappointed.

We are often so distracted by the internal war between what we want to do and what we have to do that we overlook what we need to do.

You did what your heart told you to do,' Brain complimented. 'It is what leaders, not followers, do.

friends are like stars. You do not see all the time, but you know they are there

Breaking free, or not, is usually determined by whether you want to get somewhere slowly or nowhere fast.

And though the symptons of lovesickness may be many, they all share a single cause and single cure: you.

If you want sympathy, look for a friend, but if you want honesty, an enemy might be the best friend you ever had.

Life sucks, then you die. Then it sucks again.

She was a dead girl having the worst panic attack shed ever had. Not because she was afraid of dying, but because she knew that she would never live again.

You can only get outside yourself by looking inside.

Like a wildflower, poetry does not need explanation. It only needs to touch our emotions.

Even though I hated doing farming and wanted to just get out of the village, I would work from 5 in the morning till 5 in the evening.

Whenever I look at a baby or children in general, I smile and just want to play with them.

And it sort of jogged a memory of something that I read at school and I read it, and I thought God this is it. So you never can tell. I could find something this afternoon.

I want the flower and fruit of a man; that some fragrance be wafted over from him to me, and some ripeness flavor our intercourse.

The only way to find the best actor would be to let everybody play Hamlet and let the best man win.

A speech is poetry: cadence, rhythm, imagery, sweep! A speech reminds us that words, like children, have the power to make dance the dullest beanbag of a heart.

My newspaper job … is my identity.

If you are not passionately devoted to an idea, you can make very pleasant pictures but they won't make you cry.

All the Congress, all the accountants and tax lawyers, all the judges, and a convention of wizards all cannot tell for sure what the income tax law says.