The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.

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.

Humans get used to even if they are in the hell.

When you accept that failure is a good thing, it can actually be a huge propeller toward success.

Trusting your individual uniqueness challenges you to lay yourself open.

We have our ambition for the future and God. And thus we put God as a plus sign after something else we want.

Politics imagined as direct agency, whether by voting or by participating in politics, you can think you're not political because you don't do anything between elections.

Music has seven letters, writing has twenty-six notes

What is dishonorably got, is dishonorably squandered.

If eskimos can come up with fifty words for snow because its a matter of life and death, why do we have just one word for love?

Oh, I was an ugly kid. My old man took me to the zoo. They thanked him for returning me.

We are attracted to people who express the qualities we deny or repress in ourselves.