Life's not that simple. Not so easy to move on when the anger you've got is what keeps you going.

You get use to someone—start to like them, even—and they leave. In the end, everyone leaves.

And just when I though things were starting to get better, everything had gone wrong again.

We all know we're one day closer to the end when we wake up in the morning. We just kid ourselves that it's not happening.

However cozy things seemed, the facts of life were the same. You couldn't escape death: It would get us all in the end.

I was tired of being me.

He loved me and I loved him, but the number in my head was telling me that he was going to die today. And the numbers had never been wrong.

How easy to be a bird or an animal, living from day to day, unaware you're alive, unaware that one day you will die.

And then, a strangely comforting thought trickled through me—I had nothing, so I could do anything now. Anything I wanted. I had nothing left to lose.

I don't understand, Jem. I don't understand why you'd leave me. Why would you that?

Bravery is not the absence of fear, but rather, it is the decision to look fear in the eyes and press on regardless

Don’t argue with [a professor], but test everything he says in the light of God’s Word.

I have the utmost respect and 'aloha' for black people - who have already suffered so much due to racial discrimination and acts of hatred.

The most precious things in life are not those you get for money.

That's the gamble that you make when you decide to become a rock musician. It's totally unpredictable.

I've never believed in lower wages. Never. Never believed in lower wages, I've never believed in lower wages as an economic instrument.

I have a reputation for speaking my mind. I like to think my candor and bluntness will give you the answers.

I heard a neigh. Oh, such a brisk and melodious neigh it was. My very heart leapt with the sound.

I've governed from a consistent set of principles

With enough emotional intensity and repetition, our nervous systems experience something as real, even if it hasn't occurred yet.