It's the imperfections that make things beautiful

Would you rather live one perfect day over and over or live your life with no perfect days but just decent ones?

It’s hard to throw away history. It was like you were throwing away a part of yourself.

Moments, when lost, can't be found again. They're just gone.

Susannah continued. "If and when I go off slow dancing in the ever after, I don't want to look like I've been stuck in a hospital room my whole life. I at least want to be tan.

My mother was good at that, making people feel normal. Safe. Like as long as she was there, nothing truly bad could happen.

She'd known me my whole life. It's hard to throw away history. It was like you were throwing a part of yourself.

He smiled at me, and that smile -- he just gets in. His smile did it every time.

I wished I could stay forever, in this moment. Like in one of those plastic snowballs, one little moment frozen in time.

Sometimes it’s like people are a million times more beautiful to you in your mind. It’s like you see them through a special lens — but maybe if it’s how you see them, that’s how they really are.

I could survive for months, years, on a crush.

The Sufi must be able to alternate his thought between the relative and the Absolute, the approximate and the Real.

One day you gonna find out that you can't shout... nobody does listens to you.

Freedom is poetry, taking liberties with words, breaking the rules of normal speech, violating common sense. Freedom is violence.

I find drug use disrespectful, self destructive and weak. I want no part of it. I believe in complete respect for myself and others.

My parents, grandparents, aunts and uncles were all funny, and I felt that energy, that delivery, that timing, that sarcasm. All that stuff seeped into my brain.

God can't fill you when you are already full of yourself.

It is impossible to be saved without the help of the Most Blessed Virgin, because those who are not saved by the justice of God are saved by the intercession of Mary.

The elite attack religious people and clergy with a vengeance.

Scouts have always been surprised by the way I'm able to move at my size. How fast and agile I am.

Sports teach you how to be quick. Injuries teach you how to slow down.