You shouldn't have to convince anyone to choose you. There is no real choice in love.

I think it's hard for you to fall in love because you like control, and you can't control what another person does or feels, so you keep all your cards.

I was just a flat line until he came along. And maybe now I'm hurting. But isn't that what love is supposed to do? Make you feel, make you brave, make you look at yourself more carefully?

Overbearing mothers usually give way to one of two things in their children: rebellion or passivity. In your case, the latter.

Humans seek connection above all else, and we are willing to destroy things to attain it.

That's the most pathetic part of being a human, the emotions you don't ask for or want, they just rush you anyway.

We think we can control our lives, but our lives control us. And everything that touches our lives controls us. People have less power than they think they do. It's just the reactions we control.

We are at that age that balances between independence and conferring with your friends about every miniscule decision you make. I've never liked that part of adolescence.

Don't make someone burn, and then try to douse the flames with the things you should have done. Those regrets are gasoline not water.

The same hot lightning that burns your blood with passion–– cools your fears with peace.

We must allow people the space and time of discovery, and trust in all that is to come.

... shunning all offers of help, all offers of the more practical... This was his task, he said, and it would be carried out alone. Penance, my brother reminded me, was a lonely place to be.

If there were a better, clearer, shorter way of saying what the fiction says, then why not scrap the fiction?

If the president is going to use so much language of theology and the Bible, then let's use that language for a serious discussion about the war in Iraq. And that was never done.

The greatest single lesson to be learned from golf is mental discipline.

It's okay for you to have relationships, but it's not okay to talk about them. It's not okay to be out or to be public about it. It's not okay to be photographed with your partner.

Olympism is a doctrine of the fraternity between the body and the soul.

I have admired Melissa Pritchard's writing for several years now for its wisdom, its humble elegance, and its earthy comedy.

In this world, there is a kind of painful progress. Longing for what we've left behind, and dreaming ahead.