Talking to them was like being placed into conversational purgatory, with no hope of being released without significant damage to one's self-esteem.

If you don't have any feelings for Will Darcy, why are you blushing and fixing your hair?

It's very easy to get a boy to leave the room.It's much harder to get him to leave your thoughts.

Nobody wants to give up a weekend-long excuse to dress up and attempt to outshine one another.

Downfall, failure and death cannot be far from any man who made counterfeit friends his ally and support.

Don't worry, " he would say, smiling. "Dying is much more difficult than one imagines.

You're supposed to be using your gifts and fulfilling your dreams, at every age.

When you notice something clearly and see it vividly, it then becomes sacred.

Joy is always a function of gratitude - and gratitude is always a function of perspective.

If you're lucky enough to be raised in a rich family, good. But learn how to respect that luck. It's not a given, you know? It's not like, 'Well, it's normal'. No, it's not normal. It's lucky.

Good and quickly seldom meet.

Football, like life, is about change.

God gave me this illness to remind me that I'm not Number One; He is.

There's a lot of psychological material that you inherit from your family.