We didn't talk much. But we didn't need to.

Some tourists think Amsterdam is a city of sin, but in truth it is a city of freedom. And in freedom, most people find sin.

Amsterdam is like the rings of a tree: It gets older as you get closer to the center.

I feel like crying, so I must be crying, but it's impossible to tell because I'm underwater.

...And in freedom, most people find sin.

So I walked back to my room and collapsed on the bottom bunk, thinking that if people were rain, I was drizzle and she was a hurricane.

A taste so profound and complex that it can't even be compared to other tastes, only to emotions. Cheesy waffles, I was thinking, tastes like love without the fear of love's dissolution.

My thoughts are stars I cannot fathom into constellations.

The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.

All those paper people living in their paper houses, burning the future to stay warm.

I would always love Alaska Young, my crooked neighbor, with all my crooked heart.

How beautiful it is to have inner peace while knowing that everyone is busy with their own battles in life.

We can’t really explain what the goal of mentoring is, until we understand what the church is for.

There's a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out.

You never lose a game if the opponent doesn't score.

I adored history, not the dry dates and boring battles, but the stories and the people who populated them.

Remember your ancestors, dream of your descendants and work hard while you're living.

Acting was something that just came along. But I made good money, so it wasn't something I was just going to put aside and pretend it didn't exist.

I do hope that all nations can live in complete security and welfare.

The concept of fate is an open insult against man's willpower!

If you are willing to do only what's easy, life will be hard. But if you are willing to do what's hard, life will be easy.