The darkest nights produce the brightest stars.

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.

Amsterdam is like the rings of a tree: It gets older as you get closer to the center.

I feel like crying, so I must be crying, but it's impossible to tell because I'm underwater.

...And in freedom, most people find sin.

So I walked back to my room and collapsed on the bottom bunk, thinking that if people were rain, I was drizzle and she was a hurricane.

A taste so profound and complex that it can't even be compared to other tastes, only to emotions. Cheesy waffles, I was thinking, tastes like love without the fear of love's dissolution.

My thoughts are stars I cannot fathom into constellations.

The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.

All those paper people living in their paper houses, burning the future to stay warm.

I would always love Alaska Young, my crooked neighbor, with all my crooked heart.

You mustn't dwell on the inevitable.

In Jesus the performance pendulum stops — both the pride of success and the despair of failure are absorbed by grace.

Having the positive belief that it will all be O.K. just means that you hustle and make it work because failure is not even an option in your own mind.

Both induction and deduction, reasoning from the particular and the general, and back again from the universal to the specific, form the essence to scientific thinking.

Yet there are some resting-places, / Life's untroubled interludes; / Times when neither past nor future / On the soul's deep calm intrudes.

What's been great about the human race gives you a sense of how great you might get, how far you can reach.

Engineers have a very limited education and background, I think you need to move into the broader humanities in order to become a total person.

I would rather be at Reggae Sunsplash, which happens once a year, than doing some horrible Brady Bunch reunion.

I think that personality traits that come through when somebody is really sincere is what makes them beautiful.

In a false quarrel there is no true valor.