We have these impossibly high standards and we'll probably never live up to our perfect fantasies of our future selves. But I feel like that's okay.

What we have to remember is that we can still do anything. We can change our minds. We can start over.

I will live for love and the rest will take care of itself

Do you wanna leave soon? No, I want enough time to be in love with everything... And I cry because everything is so beautiful and so short.

We don't have a word for the opposite of loneliness, but if we did, I could say that's what I want in life.

We can't, we MUST not lose this sense of possibility because in the end, it's all we have.

The middle of the universe is tonight, is here, And everything behind is a sunk cost.

I worry sometimes that humans are afraid of helping humans. There's less risk associated with animals, less fear of failure, fear of getting to involved.

Let's make something happen to this world.

I plan on having parties when I’m 30. I plan on having fun when I’m old. Any notion of THE BEST years comes from clichéd ‘should haves ‘if I’d’ ‘wish I’d’

I'm trying to figure out if I love art enough to be poor.

You will never know what you are doing until and unless you have done it.

OnceThere was a quiet island, With a name.You must believe me When I say that sunlight, Impure but beautiful, Broke upon the bay, silveredThe unrepentant, burning moon.

Time like money is measured by our needs.

It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.

As I often tell my students, the person you’ll have the hardest time opening to and truly loving without reserve is yourself. Once you can do that, you can love the whole universe unconditionally.

What is commonly called a pest is nature's way of bringing back into balance an imbalance that man has created.

You call it madness, but I call it love.

True motivation comes from achievement, personal development, job satisfaction, and recognition.

Life is a kind of struggle. Life is a sort of fight.

Im not one of those authors who claims to hear voices in my head or let the characters speak through me, whatever that might mean.