good manners are an admission that everybody is so tender that they have to be handle with gloves.

For what it's worth, it's never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you're proud of and if you find that you're not, I hope you have the strength to start over.

You are the finest, loveliest, tenderest, and most beautiful person I have ever known—and even that is an understatement.

And in the end, we were all just humans...Drunk on the idea that love, only love, could heal our brokenness.

Suddenly she realized that what she was regretting was not the lost past but the lost future, not what had not been but what would never be.

To be kind is more important than to be right. Many times, what people need is not a brilliant mind that speaks but a special heart that listens.

The world only exists in your eyes. You can make it as big or as small as you want

Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.

There are all kinds of love in this world but never the same love twice.

You have a place in my heart no one else ever could have.

The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.

One fifth of the people are against everything all the time.

A #2 pencil and a dream can take you anywhere.

Our problem with desire is that we want too little.

Oklahoma is very beautiful, and Eric loves beauty, but he already has that in you.

Thanks are the highest form of thought.

Young women today do not marry the men they met in high school, or even the one they go out with at college, because they do not need to.

He who hesitates is not only lost, but miles from the next exit.

One thing that annoys me is when you see women in these terrible and incredible situations with perfectly glossed lips. You're not going to look good in the apocalypse.

There are only two economists in Congress and hundreds of lawyers. Does that explain why the government is in such a mess?

Occasionally, in the middle of a conversation her name would be mentioned, and she would run down the steps of a chance sentence, without turning her head.