Baby, high school's over. High school's never over.

Trees are as close to immortality as the rest of us ever come.

Let us never underestimate the power of a well-written letter.

Arriving late was a way of saying that your own time was more valuable than the time of the person who waited for you.

The sunset you see is always better than the one you don’t. More stars are always better than less.

Lots of people go mad in January. Not as many as in May, of course. Nor June. But January is your third most common month for madness.

When there is an invisible elephant in the room, one is from time to time bound to trip over a trunk.

Pheromones are Earth's primordial idiom.

In everyone's life there are people who stay and people who go and people who are taken against their will.

No Utopia is Utopia for everyone

I still haven't found the place where I can be my true self. But maybe you never get to be your true self, either.

Success is getting what you want, happiness is wanting what you get

When you invest your life, you don’t lose it.

I couldn't quite understand how an ordinary man's good qualities could become crushing accusations against a guilty man.

I think a film is a failure if it doesn't have an emotional effect. That's the film's failure. Not if it doesn't deliver a message, but if it doesn't have emotional effect or visceral effect.

I think that Minnesota is different because we are proving that tri-partisan government could work, that you do not need to necessarily be a Democrat or a Republican to be successful at governing.

She stabbed him in the armpit, deep, and he dropped his sword. And died. So that's what is feels like, she thought as her boldness gave away to trembling. It feels awful.

Better lose your life than your soul.

When we imagine the power of all our sisters standing together on the shoulders of a quality education - our joy knows no bounds.

Chinese are wise in comprehending without many words what is inevitable and inescapable and therefore only to be borne.

The good writing of any age has always been the product of someone's neurosis.