The history of my life is the history of the struggle between an overwhelming urge to write and a combination of circumstances bent on keeping me from it.

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.

Don't tell me the moon is shining

Maybe it’s just in America, but it seems that if you’re passionate about something, it freaks people out. You’re considered bizarre or eccentric. To me, it just means you know who you are.

Government should be a floor upon which the good of the people flourishes, not a ceiling upon which people bump their heads!

Equality and development will not be achieved however if peace is not understood from women's' point of view.

I am partly to blame for the decking boom, and I am sorry, I know it?s everywhere these days.

If you're always on time, it implies that you never have anything better you should be doing. -Kelsier

The biggest mistake that you can make is to believe that you are working for somebody else.

There's such a thing as theater discipline. One player doesn't appropriate another's inventions

Every dimension of the gospel is relevant to one or more of our social and political problems of our time.

Women and love are underpinnings. Examine them and you threaten the very structure of culture.