I definitely felt the pressure I wanted to live up to all of the expectations.

I think being different, going against the grain of society is the greatest thing in the world.

Dream the impossible because dreams do come true.

In the absence of love, there is nothing worth fighting for.

Our bad memories and our bad experiences are what make us who we are and what make us grow and allow us to learn, if we choose to see the lessons in those experiences.

Quite simply it is love. It is the unconditional love that says, regardless of what you do or where you go, I will always be there for you.

I never wanted to be in a band because I love music too much to mess it up.

On a superficial level, I like girls with dark hair - I'm a sucker for that.

My God! Middle Earth does exist!

Hello! I'm Elijah Wood, and i'm a looser!

The guy is a stud with women just following him around wherever he goes. But he is the last one who'll ask anyone to do anything for him. He'd rather just go do it himself.

No one will share your dreams until they come to reality let desire remain effervescent and never despair

If you don't read books, and if you don't get consumed by the physical and moral life of men and women in fiction and history, too many facets of yourself may never come into being.

You’re not a creature in body.You exist as the stars exist, participating in their stillness, their immensity.

The great tragedy of Science: the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.

Bumblestripe: “I think we showed them.” Hazeltail: “Showed them what? How much blood can be spilled in a pointless battle?

Marriage, friends, is a lifelong feast; love is no light lunch.

A lot of writing about being a mother is not so much writing about the kids themselves. They become placeholders for the shift that happens when you're suddenly in charge of other people.

In class society everyone lives as a member of a particular class, and every kind of thinking, without exception, is stamped with the brand of class.

I'm kind of a crazy person about hand sanitizer. I carry the plain ones that smell like aloe, from Target or CVS.

I choose to surround myself with happy human beings. I went through the angsty period. I think every single person does. I think it's a rite of passage to hate the world and feel like the victim.