There are some secrets that we think we're keeping, but those secrets are actually keeping us.

It's the children the world almost breaks who grow up to save it.

Every single person has at least one secret that would break your heart. If we could just remember this, I think there would be a lot more compassion and tolerance in the world.

Be wise enough not to be reckless, but brave enough to take great risks.

Religious people fear hell -- Spiritual people have walked thru it.

The children almost broken by the world become the adults most likely to change it.

Sometimes when we think we are keeping a secret, the secret is actually keeping us.

Every single person has at least one secret that would break your heart.

How I wish I could hug everyone and tell them that it's okay. It's okay to be scared and angry and hurt and selfish. It's part of being human.

Dear soulmate, I don't know who you are, where you live, or what you look like. But I pray for you every nite and I ask God to point you in my direction.

Stop lying. There isn't enough time left.

You are in control only if you control yourself.

In order to know your enemy, you must become your enemy.

Eventually, we come to love certain novels because we have expended so much imaginative labor on them. This is why we hang on to those novels, whose pages are creased and dog-eared.

There is some consolation in the fact that even though your dreams don't come true neither do your nightmares.

We were raised to believe in books, music, and nature.

Things will get better if you just hold out long enough.

One must never compromise with tyrants. One can only strike at kings through the head. Nothing can be expected from European kings except by force of arms. I vote for the death of the tyrant.

I didn't play much ball. I wasn't much of a ball fan.

I had three jobs in college. The best day of my life was when I paid off my student loans, on my own.

I have nothing but scorn for all weird ideas other than my own.