The easiest way to get a reputation is to go outside the fold, shout around for a few years as a violent atheist or a dangerous radical, and then crawl back to the shelter.

For what it's worth, it's never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you're proud of and if you find that you're not, I hope you have the strength to start over.

You are the finest, loveliest, tenderest, and most beautiful person I have ever known—and even that is an understatement.

And in the end, we were all just humans...Drunk on the idea that love, only love, could heal our brokenness.

Suddenly she realized that what she was regretting was not the lost past but the lost future, not what had not been but what would never be.

To be kind is more important than to be right. Many times, what people need is not a brilliant mind that speaks but a special heart that listens.

The world only exists in your eyes. You can make it as big or as small as you want

Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.

There are all kinds of love in this world but never the same love twice.

You have a place in my heart no one else ever could have.

The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.

This seemed like one of those make-it-or-break-it moments where you have to consciously choose to do the right thing. Or be bad.

I only want people around me who can do the impossible.

I have some state secrets I will take with me to paradise.

Maybe, just maybe, I should not have used the word "eldritch" so many times now that I think about it.

You couldn't have strength without weakness, you couldn't have light without dark, you couldn't have love without loss

Character and emotionality don't always have to be relegated to quieter, more simple constructs.

My main thing is not eating processed food.

Good and just society is neither the thesis of capitalism nor the antithesis of communism, but a socially conscious democracy which reconciles the truths of individualism and collectivism.

Many believe one can be a "good Christian" without joining (or even attending) a local church, but God would strongly disagree.

I tend to be sort of quiet and shy and awkward in social situations.