Maybe all you can do, when your world is burning, is hold on to the thing you love the most.

Books didn't make me wallow in darkness, darkness made me wallow in books.

The cruelest thing, hope, the way it strings you along, the way it makes you believe.

Freedom of speech doesn't mean freedom from judgement.

How could I possibly try to pretend the sunlight doesn’t exist, now that it’s taken so much of me?

I am confident, I am capable, and I will not wait to be rescued by a woodsman or a hunter.

I like libraries. It's a comfort that knowledge can be save for so long. That what we learn can be passed on.

Knowledge does have a way of making you an outcast.

I'm friggin' awesome! So screw the haters!

I follow, always, because its the only time when our hearts beat in perfect harmony, the only time when Im certain, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that we are one person broken in two.

My sister has the heart of an artist with a hatchet and an eye patch. And I, we both now know, have a heart that is undeniably, irreparably different.

He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.

How can you put human rights to a popular vote and call it democracy? How many times do you need to redefine or haggle about the meaning of the word EQUALITY?

Make me a shadow on the wall!

Unless you paddle for the wave, you'll never know if you could catch it. But once you do... Ride it as long as you can. Love as long as you can.

Freedom breeds freedom. Nothing else does.

The ability to conduct is a gift of God with which few have been endowed in full measure.

Even though your kids will consistently do the exact opposite of what you're telling them to do, you have to keep loving them just as much.

I have to be sure of myself - in a conditional way, always being open to the possibility that I'm wrong.

As a rule, wearing a bigger pair of jeans looks better than squishing yourself into a pair of jeans that used to fit before you gave up smoking.

Alas, the spheres of truth are less transparent than those of illusion.