True stories are the best stories.

I changed the course of my disease with the power of my mind.

Dare to love yourselfas if you were a rainbowwith gold at both ends.

He could not afford to indulge misery, to live in the past and stumble through life facing backwards.

And what this is, I realize, is life. I don't want it. I want my parents and I have for weeks. I've been trying to claw my way back to them, and now I am so close and he is telling me not to.

You're not so bad. You'll get there. You should have seen Alec do flips at first. I think he kicked himself in the head once.

Before beginning [to try to prove Fermat's Last Theorem] I should have to put in three years of intensive study, and I haven't that much time to squander on a probable failure.

I have to live for me. I have to do what I need to do for me, and I have stopped concerning myself with what people say.

I like to maintain a certain sense of fantasy. At home, do I have the full hair and makeup? No. But I might have the nice dress on.

For more than two centuries since winning our own freedom, we the people of the United States have repeatedly answered the call to lead the quest for freedom around the globe.

As a gardener, I wonder if flowers really can't speak or just exercise unfailing good judgment in the matter.

There’s an Iago and a Romeo within all of us. There is that lover, and there is that sociopath.