P.S. Please don't call me Isabella. That name belongs to a really pretty girl who never wrecks her clothes and who never gets dirt under her fingernails. That's definitely not me. My name is Izzy.

Words are a weapon, and rotten kids like Tyler Jones get a free pass when it comes to using them because the marks they leave are invisible. Why don't more adults realize that?

Turns out, most girls would rather put on lip gloss than play with sand toads.

Those who don't care about the positive side of you, are too dangerous to have on your side.

Hee that burnes his house warmes himselfe for once.

Among the numerous advantages promised by a well-constructed Union, none deserves to be more accurately developed than its tendency to break and control the violence of faction.

We dont want the Taliban to put down roots, or the al Qaeda to put down roots in Afghanistan that can facilitate Afghanistan becoming - once again - a launching pad for international terrorism.

Dad bought me a toy drum one Christmas and I eventually destroyed it. I wanted a real drum and he bought me a snare drum. Dad continued to buy me one drum after the other.

In war, men are nothing, one man is everything.

I've always felt running is a form of meditation. Running enables us to stop our lives, to go out and find a safe place for ourselves.

The consciousness in each man is a sliding scale, which identifies him now with the First Cause, and now with the flesh of his body; life above life, in infinite degrees.

Last night I played a blank tape at full blast. The mime next door went nuts.

Loving friends let kindness grow in their hearts, creating a oneness with their souls.