The secret of happiness is freedom, the secret of freedom is courage.

It's hard to save the world when you can't save yourself

It's a lot easier to understand things once you name them. It's the unknown that mostly freaks me out. I don't know the name of that fear, but I know I've got it, the fear of the unknown.

So, I’m a bear, ” she explains, eyeing us all. “Wait? Is Issie something?”“Nope, ” Issie pouts. “All human. All the time.”“The coolest human ever, ” Devyn says, reaching down and ruffling her hair.

Hate is a useless emotion.

Why would I want to fit in?

Dimples crinkle up the skin near his lips. I will not look at his lips. How can he never have used those? That’s a crime against humanity right there.

... no one can ever save someone else, you know? We can only save ourselves. You know that, don't you?

The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.

If you truly loved someone you won't become their enemy. You will become their guardian angel.

There is a difference between truly listening and waiting for your turn to talk.

You taste like Heaven, but God knows you're built for sin

Medical costs are of concern, both in developing and developed countries.

Victimhood and a “can't do” spirit is what the Democratic Party has mostly been about since the Great Depression.

I can knit. I knit all year, day in, day out. It is my passion, and I rarely knit the same thing twice the same way.

I do not believe in the bundle theory anyway. The bundle theory postulates universals and I do not believe in them; so I do not believe in the bundle theory.

Joys do not fall to the rich alone; nor has he lived ill of whose birth and death no one took note.

Stand in that reverent attitude to the whole universe, and then will come perfect non attachment.