I'm seventeen today and dressed for a party. But I can't move. I can't think, much less move. I can't breathe, much less think. This is the moment when my life will change forever.

A lack of knowledge always leads to defeat and destruction

There is an incredible beauty in your touch, it can heal the gravest wounds. And in your smile, that can easily mend any broken heart.

I wrenched open the windows. I stood while the cold air poured around my face like dark water, as if I was a rock and it was chiselling me into a new shape.

Every man has two counties--his own and America.

What are the distinctive characteristics, or marks, of personality? Knowledge, feeling or emotion, and will. Any entity that thinks and feels and wills is a person.

Freedoms are not only the primary ends of development, they are also among its principal means.

Through the dry phases of calculations in her mind, she noticed that she did have time to feel something: it was the hard, exhilarating pleasure of action.

How does Macy Gray or Kid Rock not win over Christina Aguilera?

The space for what you want is already filled with what you settled for instead.

I've been thinking of trying my hand at rap. I've been recording snippets on my BlackBerry.