While you judge me by my outward appearance I am silently doing the same to you, even though there's a ninety-percent chance that in both cases our assumptions are wrong.

Nothing in this world compares to the comfort and security of having someone just hold your hand.

A daily dose of daydreaming heals the heart, soothes the soul, and strengthens the imagination.

One way or another, I think we are all destined to learn the same lessons in life. Universal truths are universal truths. They cannot be changed.

Statistics, likelihoods, and probabilities mean everything to men, nothing to God.

Just pick a goal and stick to it―no big complicated secret.

Life isn't all grand, but it isn't all miserable either.  There's both sweet and sour in every day.  So why focus on the ugly when you can gaze at what's beautiful?  Concentrate on the good.

You will realize one day that all the money in the world cannot buy you happiness. Nor can it make you a person of good character.

What you perceive as a failure today may actually be a crucial step towards the success you seek. Never give up.

No matter how loud the sirens or how numerous the hazard signs, we all touch the flames at least once to prove they're hot.

World peace, true love, and happily-ever-afters amount to wasted wishes, failed endeavors, and most precious dreams.

Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance

Once the light shines on your path, you will see clearly.

You should've told me Tess, " I murmured against her hair. "You helped me find my humanness but you took it away with your lies.

Yeah, I read history. But it doesn't make you nice. Hitler read history, too.

I missed my dad a lot growing up, even though we were together as a family. My dad was really a workaholic. And he was always working.

You know all those dangerous mutants you hear about in the news? I'm the worst one.

Using drugs didn't help me to play, all it did was to hang me up for about fifteen years.

Never become too busy for your brother or your sister. For when your parents die, it is your hearts alone that will realize how the joys and pains of family have shaped your lives.

If you never look just wrong to your contemporaries you will never look just right to posterity - every writer has to try to be, to some extent, sometimes, a law unto himself.

A movement only exists when people are inspired to move, to do something, to make the cause their own.