Fate is for the weak--those people who don't have enough power or will to shape life into what they need it to be.

But I do care. I hate myself for it, but I can’t fight this desperate need to try. Try to fit in. Try to make this school experience different than all the previous ones.

Stupid kissing. Stupid roaming hands. Stupid boys.

Winners win losers make excuses.

'Help' is a prayer that is always answered.

It is like confessing to a murder.

Age is just a number, and agelessness means not buying into the idea that a number determines everything from your state of health to your attractiveness to your value.

I consider the piano my 'main' instrument and have been playing for as long as I can remember. It seems to me that I might have come up with something resembling a song as early as 4 or 5 years old.

You learn to present dark things without including their ability to harm, treasuring them for what they are.

He who uses the office he owes to the voters wrongfully and against them is a thief.

Everybody thinks of economics whether he is aware of it or not. In joining a political party or in casting his ballot, the citizen implicitly takes a stand upon essential economic theories.

Grief is the tax we pay on our attachments.