Trust me on this: no one is better off alone.

That a day spent with dreaming and sunsets and refreshing breezes cannot be bettered.

Love is like the wind, you can't see it but you can feel it.

I fell in love with her when we were together, then fell deeper in love with her in the years we were apart.

You are, and always have been, my dream.

In the blink of an eye, something happens by chance - when you least expect it - sets you on a course that you never planned, into a future you never imagined.

I want you to be.... happy.

I mean, if the relationship can't survive the long term, why on earth would it be worth my time and energy for the short term?

The scariest thing about distance is that you don’t know whether they’ll miss you or forget you.

You can't live your life for other people. You've got to do what's right for you, even if it hurts some people you love.

Writing the last page of the first draft is the most enjoyable moment in writing. It's one of the most enjoyable moments in life, period.

...success is not a comparison of what we have done with what others have done.

It is only when one has lost all things, that one knows that one possesses it

Life was profligate with beauty, only if you stopped to look, only if you had someone to share it with.

Without movement there is no Life...We should use our energy to the fullest.

I didn't really know why I wanted to go to college. I didn't really have a reason to go there other than the fact that everybody else was doing it.

Literature has the power to change lives, minds, and hearts.

If I didn't care about you, I wouldn't get so mad at the things you do.

A man should fear when he only enjoys what good he does publicly. Is it not the publicity rather than the charity he loves? Is it not vanity, rather than benevolence, that gives such charities?

A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his children without surrounding them with books, if he has the means to buy them.

I used to be a hot-tar roofer. Yeah, I remember that... day.