"What would you do if I kissed you right now?" I stared at his beautiful face and his beautiful mouth and I wanted nothing more than to taste it. "I would kiss you back."

Thinking something does not make it true. Wanting something does not make it real.

I’ll walk forever with stories inside me that the people I love the most can never hear.

I was going to kiss him, and I was going to regret it. But at that moment, I couldn't bring myself to care.

Sometimes, the biggest secrets you can only tell a stranger.

You're stronger than you believe. Don't let your fear own you. Own yourself.

If I were to live a thousand years, I would belong to you for all of them. If we were to live a thousand lives, I would want to make you mine in each one.

Everyone's a little crazy. Some people just hide it better than others.

Maybe sometimes we can only see the truth about ourselves if someone shows us where to look.

It doesn’t matter what we are. It matters what we do.

I must be made of nothing to feel so much nothing.

The student of history knows no more refreshing recreation than that of nailing liars, like vermin, to the wall.

The saddest line you scraped in your diary was not that you cried but those moments when we both shared smile.

Much of what is called Christianity has more to do with disguising the ego behind the screen of religion and culture than any real movement toward a God beyond the small self, and a new self in God.

...the essence of gospel-humility is not thinking more of myself or thinking less of myself, it is thinking of myself less.

The first principle of achievement is mental attitude. People begin to achieve when they begin to believe.

The sun will rise whether you like it or not, whether you oppose it or not, whether you care about it or not! Some things will happen whatever you think and whatever you feel about them!

Every betrayal contains a perfect moment, a coin stamped heads or tails with salvation on the other side.

My heart is broken by the terrible loss I have sustained in my old friends and companions and my poor soldiers. Believe me, nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won.

There is no point in having sharp images when you've fuzzy ideas.

Today, some of the most spiritual people I know claim to be without religion.