We'll be remembered more for what we destroy than what we create.

The one you love and the one who loves you are never, ever the same person.

Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everyone I've ever known.

Make me into anything, but just love me.

All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.

When we don't know who to hate, we hate ourselves.

People are all over the world telling their one dramatic story and how their life has turned into getting over this one event. Now their lives are more about the past than their future.

The only reason why we ask other people how their weekend was is so we can tell them about our own weekend.

You can only hold a smile for so long, after that it's just teeth.

Parents are like God because you wanna know they're out there, and you want them to think well of you, but you really only call when you need something.

Game shows are designed to make us feel better about the random, useless facts that are all we have left of our education.

A novel must be judged on its merits, not on how hard the journey was to write it.

You travel here and you travel there, trying to get out from under the cloud, and nothing works, and then one day you realize you've been carrying the weather around with you.

I fully endorse the millennial goals to make (hunger) history, ... Those are big goals, but it's do-able.

I turn people into human beings by not making them into gods.

Living is not breathing but doing.

Competition breeds excellence, including in the GOP race.

I like most kinds of music. So I haven't got a bag, as they say... except the big black one in the hall outside.

Courage, Alexan­der,” she whis­pered. “Courage, Ta­tiana.

An "I know what I like" mentality is hard to shake, but of course appreciation has space for being challenged.

We have a two-tier class system when it comes to personality style. To devalue introversion is a waste of talent, energy and happiness.