it’s like swimming upstream. Or … falling down a cliff and grabbing at branches, trying to invent the branches as I fall.

She smiled, and her eyes started to drift downward. "Cather..." Back up to his eyes. "You know that I'm falling in love with you, right?

So, what if, instead of thinking about solving you whole life, you just think about adding additional good things. One at a time. Just let your pile of good things grow.

In new situations, all the trickiest rules are the ones nobody bothers to explain to you. (And the ones you can't Google.)

You're a kaleidoscope, you change every time I look away.

Drinking tequila is more about the journey than the destination

Every woman wants a man who'll fall in love with her soul as well as her body.

Sometimes writing is running downhill, your fingers jerking behind you on the keyboard the way your legs do when they can’t quite keep up with gravity.

You don’t have to be the kind of beautiful that everyone can agree on. If the right person finds you beautiful, you win. You win forever.

To really be a nerd, she'd decided, you had to prefer fictional worlds to the real one.

Eleanor was right. She never looked nice. She looked like art, and art wasn't supposed to look nice; it was supposed to make you feel something.

Men are more resilient than that, I think. Our belief is often strongest when it should be weakest. That is the nature of hope.

If Satan can’t keep you away from Christ, he will at least try to make you doubt your salvation.

Mutually assured destruction.

Discipline is knowing what to do. Knowing when to do it. Doing it to the best of your abilities. Doing it that way every single time.

Being asked where in Greece he saw good men, he replied, "Good men nowhere, but good boys at Sparta."

The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity.

If you have two groups of people and you say one is inferior to the other, which is a lie, then the only way to maintain the lie is through violence or the threat of violence.

Man is always and everywhere a blight on the landscape.

As a comforter, philosophy cannot compete with a good dinner.

My mum would like to see me on the cover of 'Good Housekeeping' demonstrating children's toys with some nice lipstick on.