Life doesn't come with an instruction manual.

The world needed more fireworks- especially now that there was going to be a shortage of beautiful, useless things.

What you do, the way you think, makes you beautiful.

My name is tally youngblood and my mind is very ugly

Tally smiled. At least she was causing trouble to the end. "I'm Tally Youngblood," she said. "make me pretty.

I'm Tally Youngblood. Make me pretty." -Tally Youngblood

Shay sometimes talked in a mysterious way, like she was quoting the lyrics of some band no one else listened to.

I don't want to hurt you but I will if I have too - Tally Youngblood

However stupid the choice seemed, Shay had made it with her eyes open, and had respected Tally's choice to stay.

The human heart is a strange vessel. Love and hatred can exist side by side.

A rousing tale of techno-geek rebellion, as necessary and dangerous as file sharing, free speech, and bottled water on a plane.

All the (sickness and) diseases of the worldly life disappear with the innate bliss of the Soul, the Self. Grief gives rise to the diseases.

With wine beside a gently flowing brook - this is the best

I have done 'Sports Illustrated, ' but I don't regret it because it portrayed me in a positive way - as an athlete.

Truth, they say, is but too often in difficulties, but is never finally suppressed.

Very few of us are what we seem.

I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

Other people's songs can inspire me, though - I always have music on when I'm painting.

Do I believe in ghosts?...I am prepared to consider evidence and accept it if it satisfies me.

There's just certain things you don't think about to enjoy a film. Bullets in space are one of them.

I never failed once. It just happened to be a 2000-step process.