Whatever happened, I'd met my person, the one my soul connected to.

Books were a safe place, a world apart from my own. No matter what had happened that day, that year, there was always a story in which someone overcame their darkest hour. I wasn't alone.

Wanting to cry doesn't mean you can.

I’d waited an eternity for this. I’d have waited all over again if I had to. I was meant to kiss this boy, designed to be held by him.

Elizabeth nodded, looking too dejected to do much more. “Can she just go back to him?” she pleaded. “He’s dying. She’s dying. They can’t have a life together, but at least they could have th

Sometimes you have to give the hurt a noise and let it out. If you don’t, it fills you up with its emptiness.

It is the basic, metaphysical fact of man's nature -- the connection between his survival and his use of reason -- that capitalism recognizes and protects.

The level of ignorance is declining, and the ability to accumulate data and manipulate it for various ends is increasing.

...Be grateful for what you have to be thankful for instead of complaining about the little things that annoy you.

I want to talk to you and be random with you and be ridiculous with you.

There is so much to read and the days are so short! I get more hungry for knowledge every day, and less able to satisfy my hunger.

Nothing reinforces a professional relationship more than enjoying success with someone.

If a man is both wise and lucky, he will not make the same mistake twice. But he will make any one of ten thousand brothers or cousins of the original.

Over the long haul of life on the planet, it is the ecologists, and not the bookkeepers of business, who are the ultimate accountants.

Governments constantly choose between telling lies and fighting wars, with the end result always being the same. One will always lead to the other.