Time goes by slowly when you spend it waiting.

But what I realize, here, now, is that it's not actually making the choice that takes courage. It's facing it afterward. Owning up to it, whether it's good or bad.

You know... sometimes we meet our destiny on the road we take to avoid it.

I read once that water is a symbol for emotions. And for a while now I've thought maybe my mother drowned in both.

But when’s the last time you took a chance? Or didn’t do what someone else expected of you? Or did something you really wanted to, even though you probably shouldn’t have?

We're all more than the person we show to everyone else.

That’s what seems the most sad to me—that neither of them even think there’s a possibility they can be together.

That's the best part. The how.

We're all more than the person we show to everyone else. At least I hope so. Because I feel like there's more to me than that. I just haven't had the chance yet to show it.

Sometimes a shock to the system is a good thing, you know? Like a reminder that you're alive.

[I]t wasn't history that was too fragile, but me.

Feelings do not always determine truth, but they can sometimes tell you what is true.

Love manifests its reality in deeds, not only in words - these alone are without effect.

Know what you love and do what you love. If you don't do what you love, you're just wasting your time.

A leader, you see, is one of the things that distinguishes a mob from a people.

There is no refuge from memory and remorse in this world. The spirits of our foolish deeds haunt us, with or without repentance.

So basically, I graduated high school a semester early.

Have no power, by taxation or otherwise, to retard, impede, burden or in any manner control the operations of the constitutional laws enacted by Congress.

Nobody rises above mediocrity unless they use the brains of other people.

If you could envision the type of person God intended you to be, you would rise up and never be the same again.

Giving a politician access to your wallet is like giving a dog access to your refrigerator.