What if she was supposed to be a painter, but no one ever gave her a brush?

It was time to let go of the mad desire to remember. It was time to start living whatever life would come. In the present, not the past.

Then that's what the Northern Lights are. All the lives that we're not living.

No sky Leila had seen before could compare to the beauty she was seeing above her. It didn't feel like some accident of nature but rather something that was purposefully unleashed on the world.

Funny, how it took a little bit of pain to remember that certain parts of yourself were alive.

People go entire lives without figuring out exactly what they want from life. You already have it, and the future you and your dad have planned out for you in going to take it away from you.

I keep expecting to bump into you two on the road, but maybe the universe isn’t yet ready to handle you and me side by side again.

She wanted to reach up to the night and dig her fingers into it, beg it to stay just a little bit longer.

Be good to attract good.

A good government remains the greatest of human blessings and no nation has ever enjoyed it.

We need to be reminded that there is nothing morbid about honestly confronting the fact of life's end, and preparing for it so that we may go gracefully and peacefully.

For whatever reason, not all people are born with the particular gift of being able to express ourselves through music. And, believe me, it is a gift.

The higher the joy is not the light, it's the reflection. The greater pleasure is not climbing up; it's handing down

Yours is not the task of making your way in the world, but the task of remaking the world which you will find before you.

History is a record of the incessant struggle of humanity against ignorance and oppression.

Men and women -- even man and wife are foreigners. Each has reserves that the other cannot enter into, nor understand. These have the effect of frontiers.

The thing is to understand myself: the thing is to find a truth which is true for me, to find the idea for which I can live and die. That is what I now recognize as the most important thing.

We always want the best man to win an election. Unfortunately, he never runs.