That lasting things do, in fact, last.

Remember that at any given moment there are a thousand things you can love.

Life tells you to take the elevator, but love tells you to take the stairs.

Kindness connects to who you are, while niceness connects to how you want to be seen.

The older I get, the more I lose my ability to breathe.

A photograph it a souvenir of a memory. It is not a moment. It is the looking at the photograph that becomes the moment. Your own moment.

The words that matter always stay.

motif, n. You don’t love me as much as I love you. You don’t love me as much as I love you. You don’t love me as much as I love you.

It was a mistake," you said. But the cruel thing was, it felt like the mistake was mine, for trusting you.

You have to believe there are kisses and laughs and risks worth taking.

Things that matter are not easy. Feelings of happiness are easy. Happiness is not. Flirting is easy. Love is not. Saying you’re friends is easy. Being friends is not.

You'll be fine, just some minor burns and hypothermia, which was kind of hard to explain.

Some programs have been theatrical masterpieces, but all we're seeing is the negative side of nuclear war.

I'll simply say here that I was born Beatrice Gladys Lillie at an extremely tender age because my mother needed a fourth at meals.

I used to walk to school with my nose buried in a book.

The kingdom of heaven is closer than the brow above the eye but mankind does not see it.

It’s this perspective of us as humans to look at our world through the lens of ‘normal’ [that] is one of the forces that stops us developing real solutions.

... it was as if there were always some good fortune with me that would keep me from going hungry. I knew I would never die of hunger.

There is but one true Giver in the universe; all else are debtors.

To finish first, you must first finish.

Love isn't like money--the more you give away the more you get back, and the more you have to give.