Be wise enough not to be reckless, but brave enough to take great risks.

It's the children the world almost breaks who grow up to save it.

Every single person has at least one secret that would break your heart. If we could just remember this, I think there would be a lot more compassion and tolerance in the world.

Religious people fear hell -- Spiritual people have walked thru it.

The children almost broken by the world become the adults most likely to change it.

Sometimes when we think we are keeping a secret, the secret is actually keeping us.

Every single person has at least one secret that would break your heart.

How I wish I could hug everyone and tell them that it's okay. It's okay to be scared and angry and hurt and selfish. It's part of being human.

Dear soulmate, I don't know who you are, where you live, or what you look like. But I pray for you every nite and I ask God to point you in my direction.

Stop lying. There isn't enough time left.

The confessions can touch on every human emotion. They can be laugh-out-loud funny, for sure, they can be heart-breaking, they can be sexual or hidden acts of kindness, they can be romantic.

I hold this to be the highest task of a bond between two people: that each should stand guard over the solitude of the other.

All these are readers, and their gestures, their craft, the pleasure, the responsibility and the power they derive from reading, are common with mine. I am not alone.

When you are insane, you are busy being insane - all the time.

I think of [street food] as the antidote to fast food; it's the clear alternative to the king, the clown and the colonel.

Defense doesn't break down on the help, it breaks down on the recovery.

Wanting more majors, wanting more wins, almost feels like I think Im being too greedy.

Then there's the silliest of all cliches, 'on a pace for' 'Pace' is a figment of the mathematician's imagination.

We see young men who owe us a new world, so readily and lavishly they promise, but they never acquit the debt; they die young anddodge the account: or if they live, they lose themselves in the crowd.

A kite can be flown in an absolute vacuum if it can be towed at the speed of light.

I like southern girls. They talk so slow that by the time they say no, I made it already.