What compels any of us to do the things we do when deep down a part of us just wants to break free from it all?

Just because one person's problem is less traumatic than another's doesn't mean they're required to hurt less

You were the missing piece of my soul, the breath in my lungs, and the blood in my veins.

Live in the moment, where everything is just right, take your time and limit your bad memories and you'll get wherever it is you're going a lot faster and with less bumps in the way.

I think that if past lives are real then we have been lovers in every single one of them. I've known you for a short time, but I feel like I've known you forever.

Time is cruel like life. It slows down so that you can truly experience the worst moments of it. Only if you make it through them do you get to say ‘It all happened so fast.

Just remember to always be yourself and don’t be afraid to speak your mind or to dream out loud

This goes against everything that I am, Sarai," he says and then kisses me. "No, it doesn't," I whisper and kiss him back. "It's you becoming more of who you really are.

It’s like, you know, it doesn’t matter what you do, even if you try to replicate an experience down to every last detail, it’ll never be the way it was when it happened naturally the first time.

I wonder if the ocean smells different on the other side of the world.

You made me feel real emotions. You unlocked me.

He methodically basted the dark skin of the Alsatian, which he had stuffed with garlic and herbs."One rule in life", he murmured to himself. "If you can smell garlic, everything is all right".

On day I noticed that something happened that looked like a dramatization of the inner script of my psyche.

You do not play then at whist, sir? Alas, what a sad old age you are preparing for yourself!

American federalism was the embodiment of political tolerance and decentralization - the expression of the liberal conviction that society can manage itself and needs no central plan.

In our community, we have those from the Middle East and those from Asia ... setting up shops and providing goods and services we should be providing for ourselves.

If you are going truly viral, you don't need press. I mean, MySpace grew for a very long time without any press.

I think Tom Paine is one of the greatest men that's ever lived.

I was an artistic dilettante for a while, in photography and collage and the visual arts.

Thou lump of foul deformity!