Self-knowledge is better than self-control any day," Raquel said firmly. "And I know myself well enough to know how I act around cookies.

If you loved someone, you couldn’t let lies come between you. No matter what happened—even if you’d already lost each other forever—you owed each other the truth.

Everyone is lonely, we have to remember that life is to be lived one day at a time. You cannot worry about the past or future. Happiness is in the now.

That means I’m not just here for the pretty parts. I’m here no matter what.

I apologized to her once for spending less time with her, but she blew it off. "You're in love. That makes you actually kind of boring to people who aren't in love. You know, the sane ones.

Are you calling me a weirdo? Highest honor I can bestow.

People get stupid when they're in love; people want what they can't have; and the years between ages twelve and eighteen always, always suck.

forget normal, we're going to be extraordinary" -Lucas :)

I hear your insults and plan to silence them with my victory.

Every form of art is another way of seeing the world. Another perspective, another window. And science - that's the most spectacular window of all. You can see the entire universe from there.

But do you want this? It's not much of a life. Don't you see? It's the first life I've had in four hundred years. With you--in the only way that matters--I'm alive again.

Time passes…..and a billion lives are affected in ways we’ll never know.

I pray for the ability to love you without expecting any return.

He preferred smart questions to smart answers.

Everything is ceremony in the wild garden of childhood.

By degrees, the bitterness at my heart diffused itself to the circumference of the circle in which my life went its cheerless mechanical round.

It is only the constant exertion and working of our sensitive, intellectual, moral, and physical machinery that keeps us from rusting, and so becoming useless.

Through the practice of meditation, when the mind is quieted and the emotions are calmed, the Soul shines forth in all of its glory.

I wanted to know everything about the blues. I think it constantly changes for me.

As long as we love, we lend to the beloved object qualities of mind and heart which we deprive him of when the day of misunderstanding arrives.

As I grow old I hate the writing of letters more and more, and like getting them better and better.