The idea—the fact of it, the fact that he even noticed and thought about me for more than one second—is huge and overwhelming, makes my legs go tingly and my hands feel numb.

But how could anyone who's ever seen a summer - big explosion of green and skies lit up electric with splashy sunsets, a riot of flowers and wind that smells like honey - pick the snow?

Live free or die.

It's funny, isn't it? When you are young you just want to be old, and then later you wish you could go back to being a kid.

How can someone have the power to shatter you to dust--and also to make you feel so whole?

Fridays are the hardest in some ways: you’re so close to freedom.

Dystopian novels help people process their fears about what the future might look like; further, they usually show that there is always hope, even in the bleakest future.

And when it started to get dark you pointed to the sky, and told me there was a star for every thing you loved about me.

i think of all the thousands of billions of steps and missteps and chances and coincidences that have brought me here. Brought you here, and it feels like the biggest miracle in the world.

I love you. Remember. They cannot take it

I guess that’s just part of loving people: You have to give things up. Sometimes you even have to give them up.

A baby is as pure as an angel and as fresh as a blooming flower.

When I was a boy, I would ask about my family history, about my bloodlines. We really didn't know that much. We had a little Indian in us from the Oklahoma Trail of Tears.

We are going to repeal the Obama-Clinton defense sequester and we are going to rebuild the military of the United States which is very, sadly, depleted.

If you are a complete perfectionist, then the truth is that this ice skating business will drive you a little crazy!

Sometimes you can only feel something by its absence. By the empty spaces it leaves behind.

Grind it out. Hanging on just one second longer than your competition makes you the winner.

You will not find that I ever changed a view or a vote because of any donation that I ever received.

Like cats and ice cream, showers were among life's simple, uncomplicated pleasures.

Arty farty, you'll never fool your Aunt, who knew you picked your nose and wet your pants.

Seek not for fresher founts afar, just drop you bucket where you are.