Teens find out a lot from other teens.

The beauty of dystopia is that it lets us vicariously experience future worlds - but we still have the power to change our own.

I realize now how much courage it takes to choose the life you want, whatever that might be.

When we read dystopia, we root for these people to break free because we are these people; hoping and fighting against things that are bigger than ourselves.

Red is the first color of spring. It's the real color of rebirth. Of beginning.

In the end you can't always choose what to keep. You can only choose how you let it go.

Growing apart doesn't change the fact that for a long time we grew side by side; our roots will always be tangled. I'm glad for that.

Every minute you spend with someone gives them a part of your life and takes part of theirs.

It is strange how we hold on to the pieces of the past while we wait for our futures.

This is a difficult balance, telling the truth: how much to share, how much to keep, which truths will wound but not ruin, which will cut too deep to heal.

Forgetting lets you live without the pain for a moment but remembering hits hard.

The first and great commandment is don't let them scare you.

...the self-satisfied dogmatism with which mankind at each period of its history cherishes the delusion of the finality of existing modes of knowledge.

I left Xerox for the non-profit sector because it was clear to me that only public/private partnerships can pull off a turnaround plan at the scale we need to tackle global poverty.

Life without music is no life at all.

The music is in minors.

A lot of my branding has come from stubbornness - I knew what I liked. I knew what I wanted to do.

I think I want to move forward. I want to move to Brooklyn and find a business Italian guy to take care of me.

Mind concentrates: it acts out of the past. Meditation acts in the present, out of the present.

All writers should strive to deliver something fresh-something editors or readers won't know they want until they see it.

Music has that ability to be a magical thing, and I was like, maybe music is the vehicle that transports us to that other world.