This is the beauty I want. Beauty has got to be astonishing, astounding-- it's got to burst in on you like a dream, like the exquisite eyes of a girl.

For what it's worth, it's never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you're proud of and if you find that you're not, I hope you have the strength to start over.

You are the finest, loveliest, tenderest, and most beautiful person I have ever known—and even that is an understatement.

And in the end, we were all just humans...Drunk on the idea that love, only love, could heal our brokenness.

Suddenly she realized that what she was regretting was not the lost past but the lost future, not what had not been but what would never be.

To be kind is more important than to be right. Many times, what people need is not a brilliant mind that speaks but a special heart that listens.

The world only exists in your eyes. You can make it as big or as small as you want

Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.

There are all kinds of love in this world but never the same love twice.

You have a place in my heart no one else ever could have.

The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.

Your suffering only matters if it connects you to the suffering of others, if it heals them too.

Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy.

We can't learn without pain.

I'm a big fan of NATO. But they have to pay up.

There's a certain romanticism associated with exploration of space, which is one of the major factors why we'll continue.

Apart from Jesus I am a greedy man.

Only fools mistake politicians for messiahs.

The wise man always throws himself on the side of his assailants. It is more his interest than it is theirs to find his weak point.

The Devil doesn't fear austerity but holy obedience.

Everything that's realistic has some sort of ugliness in it. Even a flower is ugly when it wilts, a bird when it seeks its prey, the ocean when it becomes violent.