There are hard days to live. You awake to a day when you feel you've done it all before, and you're going to do it again, so why do it at all.

Just because you're breathing, doesn't mean you're alive.

Becoming a man means doing the right thing even though it may be hard or difficult. Boys do what is easiest. A man does what is right, whether easy or not.

Only you can know the difference between your wants and your needs, and your sacrifice of your life's time to both.

Reading teaches us the nuances of humanity. To find the beauty of what is moral and ethical in your own actions and discover the strange subtlety of what it is to question why you should exist.

A good man lives for the joy in life and the happiness of being alive, not shackled to the wants of the future or the regrets of the past.

You know there's got to be a better way of life - somewhere, sometime, somehow - but you're not exactly sure what better is.

Sometimes we make being happy so difficult. And being thankful such a chore.

Time. Either you are for it or against it. So be here now. Not later.

Sometimes I feel as if I'm only a doorman awaiting the arrival of her royal majesty.

I gather the last remnants of the evening’s breeze, so cool and lazy within my arms, feeling it curl up like a small and innocent kitten.

Exuberance is beauty.

Love yourself first in order to endlessly love others.

I will not be my father's dog.

The CM stands for Cole Miner.

In ancient Greece, politics and the market were not decoupled.

You see? I know where every single book used to be in the library. She pointed to the shelf opposite. Over there was Catch-22, which was a hugely popular fishing book and one of a series, I believe.

Don't care for her tongue, do you? How strange. I find it one of my favorite parts. Bones to Gregor

Everything is possible in this life.

Egotism is usually subversive of sagacity.

Heaven is more than a destination; it is a motivation. Knowing that we shall dwell in the heavenly city ought to make a difference in our lives here and now.