The only thing you should never hold on to is a grudge.

I appreciate the little things in life because it adds up to everything.

I just wanna have fun and breathe, but I can’t do either one of them when I suffocate myself with depression.

It's okay to be impatient. As long as you show your patience on the outside.

I've learned to be comforted in the dark spot of my mind.

I have a mental illness, but that doesn't stop me from being mentally capable.

My mind can be ugly. But when I read something of mine that I think is beautiful, I'm reminded my mind can be beautiful too.

Life is not a PG feel-good movie. Real life often ends badly. Literature tries to document this reality, while showing us it is still possible for us to endure nobly.

I'll drive like my grandma. I'll drive like your grandma.""You wouldn't say that if you knew my gramma.

It is pardonable for children to yell that they believe in fairies, but it is somehow sinister when the piping note shifts from the puerile to the senile.

To predict the behavior of ordinary people in advance, you only have to assume that they will always try to escape a disagreeable situation with the smallest possible expenditure of intelligence.

Why did adults have to be so thick? They always say 'tell the truth, ' and when you do, they don't believe you. What's the point?

Your life is not a result of your potential, skills or desires, but of your consistent expectations and actions, which largely flow from your values and beliefs.

Simplicity carried to an extreme becomes elegance.

I just didn't work that much while the kids were growing up.

Our national myths often exaggerate the role of the individual heroes and understate the importance of collective effort.

Laptop computers dramatically increased the time people spend doing work. (The internet dramatically decreased it, so we're even).