So what else can I tell you?" I asked. "I mean, to get you to reveal Lily to me.

Remember that at any given moment there are a thousand things you can love.

Life tells you to take the elevator, but love tells you to take the stairs.

Kindness connects to who you are, while niceness connects to how you want to be seen.

The older I get, the more I lose my ability to breathe.

A photograph it a souvenir of a memory. It is not a moment. It is the looking at the photograph that becomes the moment. Your own moment.

The words that matter always stay.

motif, n. You don’t love me as much as I love you. You don’t love me as much as I love you. You don’t love me as much as I love you.

It was a mistake," you said. But the cruel thing was, it felt like the mistake was mine, for trusting you.

You have to believe there are kisses and laughs and risks worth taking.

Things that matter are not easy. Feelings of happiness are easy. Happiness is not. Flirting is easy. Love is not. Saying you’re friends is easy. Being friends is not.

Live in a way that is worth Christ dying for.

Think of your mother and smile for all of the good precious moments.

The more you worry, the more you throw off the delicate balance of hormones required for health.

Democrats and progressives do well when the voter turnout is high. Republicans do well when the voter turnout is low.

When you're looking so hard to get on your path, you're putting up resistance that keeps you from finding it.

The markets are much more interested in America's long-term trajectory than they are in feeling that there is an acute short-term crisis.

When something exceeds your ability to understand how it works, it sort of becomes magical.

When I walked out of the house with hijab on, i felt beautiful in the eyes of Allah. I felt protected, shielded - i just felt somebody was watching over me' - Nadia, a reverted Muslim

You can never go back to the first two albums in a career.

There are two kinds of adventurers: those who go truly hoping to find adventure and those who go secretly hoping they won't.