You’ve always marched to beat of your own drum, and I know you do things in your own time and your own way.

I want to be special to someone again. To know I’m cared for, and not out of obligation.

It's choice - not chance - that determines your destiny.

Books have the power to change and transform your life like few other things you have.

I'm blessed with a good pair of ears. That's how I fooled my piano teacher. I'd watch his fingers and I'd listen to it, and I just kind of basically learned it by myself.

I do not believe in collective guilt.

The more necessary a thing is for living beings, the more easily it is found and the cheaper it is; the less necessary it is, the rarer and dearer it is.

Learning softeneth the heart and breedeth gentleness and charity.

I do a lot of challenges I run marathons and stuff like that and I like to challenge myself.

May the culture of life and love render vain the logic of death.

I see [my pen] as an extension of my musculature. It's like being a painter. It's the closest I can get to my breath.

The perfect man uses his mind as a mirror. It grasps nothing. It regrets nothing. It receives but does not keep.