Pain writes the words, sorrow wields the pen, tears wet the paper, and the story mends the heart.

It's the in-between, the sustenance, not just the gears and bolts that make a human. When you forget to find out how the person was built—the oil, chemistry, and the craft—you miss all the beauty.

The ending of your story all depends on the beginning of ours.

Her silence should be feared more than her words.

A disastrous flaw in our design is that the heart always defies the brain.

I watched him with wonder like the stars watch the moon, falling in love with every crescent, dark side, and dream.

Love alone means nothing unless you have a tortured heart for it to soothe.

Life is a lie. We should fear it more than death. We live fearful of dying, terrified of the unknown … when, really, every truth is in our last breath.

Sometimes I think my scars are beautiful, but then I remember not everyone shares the same love of art.

Your brain is doing some great work when it's laughing.

A president who is burdened with a failed and unpopular war, and who has lost the trust of the country, simply can no longer govern. He is destined to become as much a failure as his war.

Serendipity was my tour guide, assisted by caprice

Oh, what am I going to do with this life I have been given." I said to myself as I sat and thought about life, and how screwed up mine really was. I was brought back into reality by Colin’s answer.

Have you ever danced with the Devil in the pale moonlight?

The entire civil service is like a fortress made of papers forms and red tape.

When I was young my heart was young then, too. And anything that it would tell me, that's the thing that I would do.

Forget all your learnings - just remember that NOW is the moment that never ends

May my heart always be open to little birds, who are the secrets of living. Whatever they sing is better than to know. And if men should not hear them - then men are old.

I don't want to spend my life in my 40s feeling bad about being in my 40s, and then all of a sudden I'm 50, and I will have missed a whole decade!