i swore i could feel my lies slithering inside me like snakes, wrapping themselves around me and constricting. i felt they were squeezing the air from my lungs, tightening around my heart.

There was that half-smirk again, playing around his lips, as if he was deciding whether the situation was amusing enough to warrant a full smile.

That was one of the saddest things about people--their most important thoughts and feelings often went unspoken and barely understood.

If you try to use Christ as a solution to your problems, it will not work. You have to serve Him in order for Him to serve you.

How could you tell children they were playing with fire if they´d never had the experience of being burned?

The righteous ones are always exhausting to have around.

You've written three lines" "Three carefully considered lines,"Xavier objected. "Quality over quantity, remember

Sometimes you meet a person and you just click-you're comfortable with them, like you've known them your whole life, and you don't have to pretend to be anyone or anything.

...nothing is permanent. Everything and everyone you know can change at any moment. That's how I see things now - except for you. You're the one constant in my life.

Sometimes it's the little things that count most.

Never love that which you cannot keep.

If I have ever made any valuable discoveries it has been owing more to patient attention than to any other talent.

Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs founded Apple Inc, which set the computing world on its ear with the Macintosh in 1984.

I feel like I've lost so many amazing traits because I've listened to stupid people, ignorant people who are bullies.

The most absolute authority is that which penetrates into a man's innermost being and concerns itself no less with his will than with his actions.

If you can eliminate the yelling and listen to the message, there's a great message there.

I have tried to live my life so that my family would love me and my friends respect me. The others can do whatever the hell they please.

We fight a lot, you know, but that's family. We may be dysfunctional, but we're still family.

It's horrible being ashamed of someone you care about; it eats away at you. And if you let it get to you, if you give up the fight and surrender, eventually that shame turns to hate.

My lyrics are my diary - you're hearing every detail of my life.

Don't nurse your dreams, Rosy. You can't help having them, but don't nurse them. If you nurse your dreams, they tend to come true.