I still harbor lingering doubts about most people. I guess I always will.

The best friends you will ever have are the ones who don't make you feel like you owe them a damn thing.

It's amazing and sad what we have to do to survive sometimes.

Life owes you nothing. You owe yourself everything.

The future is meant for those who are willing to let go of the worst parts of the past. When you cannot take two steps without turning around to inspect your footsteps, you are getting nowhere fast.

Before you tell yourself its a different scene remember its just different from what you've seen.

Live your life, no matter what that life is.

Bad things happen when good people pretend nothing is wrong.

You ever want to feel powerless? Watch the people you care about being hurt and know there is nothing you can do about it.

Our proximity keeps us honest. Our intentions keep us strangers.

Do you serve a purpose, or purposely serve?

If man could apply half the ingenuity he’s exhibited in the creation of weapons to more sensible ends, there’s no limit to what he might yet accomplish

Franny understood then that grace was not like a present. It could not be given, and it could not be taken away.

I am not made for politics because I am incapable of wanting or accepting the death of the adversary.

We make children and wealth and amass land and build halls and assemble armies and give great feasts, but only one thing survives us. Reputation.

I wanted to be as comfortable in that environment as she was. I moved around those areas in character.

All the best human impulses can be traced back to adolescence.

Slander is perhaps the only vice which no circumstance can palliate, as well as being one which we are most ingenious in concealing from ourselves.

The sense of responsibility in the financial community for the community as a whole is not small. It is nearly nil.

It can be the most difficult thing to do, but love conquers fear and love conquers hate and this love that you choose will give you strength and it's our greatest power.

Doors are for those who lack enemies.