That’s the thing about pain, it demands to be felt.

Some tourists think Amsterdam is a city of sin, but in truth it is a city of freedom. And in freedom, most people find sin.

I liked that he was a tenured professor in the Department of Slightly Crooked Smiles with a dual appointments in the Department of Having a Voice that Made My Skin Feel More Like Skin.

Oh, I wouldn't mind, Hazel Grace. It would be a privilege to have my heart broken by you.

I'll fight it. I'll fight it for you. Don't you worry about me, Hazel Grace. I'm okay. I'll find a way to hang around and annoy you for a long time.

As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.

You are so busy being YOU that you have no idea how utterly unprecedented you are.

No matter how hard you kick, no matter how high you get, you can't go all the way around.

It's not life or death, the labyrinth. Suffering. Doing wrong and having wrong things happen to you.

That's the thing about pain, it demands to be felt.

You don't get to choose if you get hurt in this world...but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices.

There are only two ways of telling the complete truth--anonymously and posthumously.

In the success equation, subtraction comes before multiplication or addition. You must sow before you can reap a harvest.

Trees are selfless, so all species thrive. If they were like humans, the world wouldn’t survive.

Startups think globally so as minister for digital affairs and innovation I do so too and strive to show the entire world how strong French tech is.

And let me tell you 'Kingdom of God' language is really big in the emerging church.

The city reveals the moral ends of being, and sets the awful problem of life. The country soothes us, refreshes us, lifts us up with religious suggestion.

We invoke the sacrifices of our fallen heroes in the abstract, but we seldom take time to thank them individually.

God is not just the starting point of your life; he is the source of it.

My dream job is being a pianist

Finding mechanisms for putting carbon back into landscapes enhances biodiversity. More biodiverse ecosystems store more carbon, more securely and are more resilient to the impacts of climate change.