Black is too morbid; red will set them on edge; pink is too juvenile; orange is freakish

But how could anyone who's ever seen a summer - big explosion of green and skies lit up electric with splashy sunsets, a riot of flowers and wind that smells like honey - pick the snow?

Live free or die.

It's funny, isn't it? When you are young you just want to be old, and then later you wish you could go back to being a kid.

How can someone have the power to shatter you to dust--and also to make you feel so whole?

Fridays are the hardest in some ways: you’re so close to freedom.

Dystopian novels help people process their fears about what the future might look like; further, they usually show that there is always hope, even in the bleakest future.

And when it started to get dark you pointed to the sky, and told me there was a star for every thing you loved about me.

i think of all the thousands of billions of steps and missteps and chances and coincidences that have brought me here. Brought you here, and it feels like the biggest miracle in the world.

I love you. Remember. They cannot take it

I guess that’s just part of loving people: You have to give things up. Sometimes you even have to give them up.

I don't have the time to wish for the things that I positively desire in life because I am always busy working to attain them.

I can't say that I know the lexicon as intimately as a lot of people, so I may be unworthy of being called a Trekkie. That would be doing a disservice to the people who really are Trekkies.

I sometimes lament the fact that I do not have the benefit of a complete and ailment free body structure.

The gaps in power, the gaps in wealth, the gaps in ideology which hold the nations apart also make up the abyss into which mankind can fall to annihilation.

I've reminded the prime minister-the American people, Mr. Prime Minister, over the past months that it was not always a given that the United States and America would have a close relationship.

Among the several kinds of beauty, the eye takes most delight in colors.

I Tweeted Keri Hilson the other day and she actually wrote back! I was so excited.

Apathy is the slow poison coursing through the body politic that paves the way to tyranny.

Learn Everything that is Good from Others, but bring it in, and in your own way absorb it; do not become others.

I never go ballistic, I'm always measured and tempered.