The tear-stained letters of my regret will remain forever unread, for I am never going to be strong enough to give them to you.

History is the lie. History's words stain otherwise pristine books, drops of inky poison frosted in sugared deception.

Only the dead remember the truth.

Inside all of us is a light, but some beacons are darker than others, and some are so dark they never realize they are a form of light at all.

We are meant to love. We are meant to lose. Love is our promise of a bittersweet end, and our desperate, hopeless struggle not to hurt anyone along the way.

What is it like to be so free - so trapped, but so free? What kind of bird sings only when caught? What kind of slave outshines and rises above her master?

Innocence has no place alongside immortality.

Develop a strong thirst for positive associations and learning from others, because the right people can take you further than you can go on your own.

Transformation takes place within us when we learn to be intentional and go from focusing on me to others, success to significance, limited to limitless, and scarcity to abundance.

Forget about being impressive and commit to being real. Because being real is impressive!

Try not to waste today by continuing on the same chapter you were complaining about yesterday.

I mean, I can get things done if I need to, but I can really be completely irresponsible and procrastinate until the very, very, very bitter end. In fact, sometimes I work better under pressure.

Affirm it, visualize it, believe it and it will actualize itself.

I think I’ll just go take a shower,” I said. It wasn’t until Samuel stiffened that I remembered I’d just come out of the shower. So much for playing normal.

Finally, good sense is the body of poetic genius, fancy its drapery, motion its life, and imagination the soul that is everywhere and in each; and forms all into one graceful and intelligent whole.

To think of shadows is a serious thing.

One thing that the Internet has created is the sense that information is at your fingertips, when it's really only a very, very limited, specific, and slanted kind of information.