i feel like a curtain has dropped away and i'm seeing people for who they really are, different, and sharp, and unknowable.

But how could anyone who's ever seen a summer - big explosion of green and skies lit up electric with splashy sunsets, a riot of flowers and wind that smells like honey - pick the snow?

Live free or die.

It's funny, isn't it? When you are young you just want to be old, and then later you wish you could go back to being a kid.

How can someone have the power to shatter you to dust--and also to make you feel so whole?

Fridays are the hardest in some ways: you’re so close to freedom.

Dystopian novels help people process their fears about what the future might look like; further, they usually show that there is always hope, even in the bleakest future.

And when it started to get dark you pointed to the sky, and told me there was a star for every thing you loved about me.

i think of all the thousands of billions of steps and missteps and chances and coincidences that have brought me here. Brought you here, and it feels like the biggest miracle in the world.

I love you. Remember. They cannot take it

I guess that’s just part of loving people: You have to give things up. Sometimes you even have to give them up.

Every day you and I walk through God's shop. Every day we brush up against objects of incalculable worth to Him. People. Every one of them carries a price tag, if only we could see it.

Decisions always refer to the future.

The enduring life is the one that begins once we awaken from this world. And it is in that awakening that we realize… It was only a dream

Every journey is played out between standstill and flight.

A leader's job is to develop committed followers. Bad leaders destroy their followers' sense of commitment.

A beautiful woman is born Queen of men and women both, as Mary Stuart was born Queen of Scots, whether men or women.

Permanent weight loss doesn’t come with an on and off switch. It is not something you do for a little while and think it is going to change your body.

I only storyboard scenes that require special effects, where it is necessary to communicate through pictures.

For someone to say I am overweight is completely ridiculous.

A true luxury is a reward for investing in and developing a real asset.