The coolest thing you can become is yourself.

Basically the most fun part about the first day of anything is buying all the supplies.

My mother had a book club that would dissolve into opening wine.

I'm from the ADHD generation, to be honest - I genuinely was on Ritalin in middle school - so I'm most comfortable with a hundred things going on at once. It's deadlines that get pesky.

The thing I miss about performing is being with people.

I think for me the trick is not to aim to impress or to even try to make people laugh but instead to tell the truth.

There's maybe nothing nicer than somebody just coming straight out and showing you they like you.

Because a sound tree doesn't have bad roots, Amara. No enterprise of greatnessbegins with treachery, with lying to the people who trust and love you

If you wish good on someone with your whole heart, you cannot hold onto feelings of unforgiveness. You will be free.

The best life is the one which is lived happily without being noticed by others!

If trust must be earned, hasn't God unequivocally earned our trust with the bark on the raw wounds, the thorns pressed into the brow, your name on the cracked lips.

I wasn't sent here to find angels! I wasn't sent here to dream of them. I wasn't sent here to hear them sing! I was sent here to be alive. To breathe and sweat and thirst and sometimes cry.

I'm just a public-schoolboy. I've got a degree. I'm from a middle-class family in Devon. I've got no story.

And feel that I am happier than I know.

he wanted to do, to be, to feel- and could not; he wanted sense, he wanted purpose- in Freud's words, 'Work and Love'.

A man not perfect, but of heart so high, of such heroic rage, That even his hopes became a part of earth's eternal heritage.

Great teachers have high expectations for their students, but higher expectations for themselves.