You are so close, and I can’t reach you.

Remember that at any given moment there are a thousand things you can love.

Life tells you to take the elevator, but love tells you to take the stairs.

Kindness connects to who you are, while niceness connects to how you want to be seen.

The older I get, the more I lose my ability to breathe.

A photograph it a souvenir of a memory. It is not a moment. It is the looking at the photograph that becomes the moment. Your own moment.

The words that matter always stay.

motif, n. You don’t love me as much as I love you. You don’t love me as much as I love you. You don’t love me as much as I love you.

It was a mistake," you said. But the cruel thing was, it felt like the mistake was mine, for trusting you.

You have to believe there are kisses and laughs and risks worth taking.

Things that matter are not easy. Feelings of happiness are easy. Happiness is not. Flirting is easy. Love is not. Saying you’re friends is easy. Being friends is not.

Fear is a powerful stimulant.

But remember: what belongs to the sea will always return to the sea.--Nereid

What does that quote mean to you? Can you explain the concept behind it and not just repeat the pretty phrase to me?

Some people are so boring that you are more bored when you are with them … than when you are alone.

There is very little difference in people but that little difference makes a big difference. The little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.

I just keep going. When the water's too still, I start splashing around and things jump out of the water.

The cumulative effects of the economic and financial sanctions might well bring the rebellion to an end within a matter of weeks rather than months.

You cannot buy your way to share of voice today; you cannot buy attention anymore.

I don't want to go around making everyone else agree with me. I don't feel the need to do that.

The tongues of dying men enforce attention like deep harmony.