everyone in our school has afterschool activities. mine is going home.

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.

When writing a novel a writer should create living people

We would get rid of assault weapons. There would not be an assault weapon in the United States, whether it's for a show or someone having it in a collection.

I don't think I'd ever write anything that I don't also direct just because it's so hard and painful to write as it is.

The eagerness of a listener quickens the tongue of a narrator.

True education is awakening a love for truth...opening the eyes of the soul to the great purpose and end of life.

Art is difficult, transient is her reward.

I find comedians to be the biggest cocksuckers, because they don't want people to know how easy it is.

Lies, fables and romances must needs be probable, but not the truth and foundation of our faith.

I decided that what I really wanted to do was to make my writing in history deeper, if that's the right word to use. And that is what I did.

Meditation is evolution's strategy to bring out our full potential.