If you're "one in a million", and the world is full of seven billion people, that means there are seven thousand people just like you.

I have realized that whatever good comes to me, comes from God, whatever bad comes to me, God has allowed it, and I choose to be thankful for both.

I used to think that your calling was about doing something good in this world. Now I understand it’s about becoming someone good—and letting that goodness impact the world around you.

Discomfort is the sign, you are on right track.

...we find our vocations not by focusing on ourselves, but by focusing on others.

The path to your dream is more about following a direction than arriving at a destination.

You are a writer. You just need to write.

If you don't acquire the discipline to push through a personal low point, you will miss the reward that comes with persevering.

Struggle shapes our character. And character dictates what we will become.

Serving people is the best way to earn influence.

We who were born into privilege and opportunity were given these gifts with an expectation: to give them away.

Young people everywhere have been allowed to choose between love and a garbage disposal unit. Everywhere they have chosen the garbage disposal unit.

Had Zach just apologised for kissing her? She didn’t know whether to cry or slap his face. ~Maddie

I should have realized, when Cathal kissed me in the hallway, that my response was the first raindrop heralding a storm.

Women will only have true equality when men share with them the responsibility of bringing up the next generation.

I shall never forgive you for teaching me how to love life.

A rare bird on this earth, like nothing so much as a black swan.

In the beginning was the Lie and the Lie was made news and dwelt among us, graceless and false.

The most deadly poison of our time is indifference.

I'm not fighting for justice. I am not fighting for freedom. I am fighting for my life and another day in the world here.

The best and only true history we have. Everyone interested in creative writing should know this book.