All crimes, all hatreds, all wars can be reduced to unhappiness.

Man is born broken. He lives by mending. The Grace of God is glue.

If the emotions are free the intellect will look after itself

God gave us mouths that close and ears that don't... that should tell us something.

We are where centuries only count as seconds, and after a thousand lives, our eyes begin to open.

My nemesis - my downfall, if you will - was relationships, and trying to fulfill them.

Free children are not easily influenced; the absence of fear accounts for this phenomenon. Indeed, the absence of fear is the finest thing that can happen to a child.

There is no present or future-only the past, happening over and over again-now.

Don't regard yourself as a guardian of freedom unless you respect and preserve the rights of people you disagree with.

We need above all to learn again to believe in the possibility of nobility of spirit in ourselves.

We are not afraid of what we think we are afraid of . . . we are afraid of what we think.

Presidents are also always storytellers, purveyors of useful national mythologies.

You should see my corgis at sunset in the snow. It's their finest hour. About five o'clock they glow like copper. Then they come in and lie in front of the fire like a string of sausages.

When I was 14 years old, I was by no means trying to work professionally at all.

A change of work is a good rest for the mind if you're constantly focused on writing. I like to work with timber and be creative on that side sometimes as well.

I just need to figure out how to grow without compromising.

Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free.

I'm obsessed with my cat. We have a really strong, really weird codependent, almost Bella/Edward relationship. I'm going to be a crazy cat lady one day, I'm sure.

Hip-hop is just something I actually know how to do. But I always had aspirations to participate in other forms of music.

If you want to be a change agent, you have to ready to fail.

The Republican Party clearly is not interested in winning. And if you want to be even more specific than that, it is paramountly obvious that they're not even interested in defeating the Democrats.