You are the Perfect Young Man: honest, clean, virile.

Had he already inspired a passion in some stranger’s heart?

He thought to himself, I’ll never be this perfect again, an idea that made him sad.

Wasn’t it correct in America to call a man ‘handsome’ rather than ‘beautiful’?

You say that you don’t care about age and that you’re ready to push the wheelchair and hose down my bum, but how can you be sure?

He was a good boy and ‘projected’ goodness – which later would be the downfall of many a person.

In America everyone called the merest acquaintance a ‘friend’ – Guy had taken up the habit. It made him feel better about not having any real friends.

Older guys have too much emotional baggage. They’ve already lived their lives.

The mindset of a Christian should be based on his faith that God can change the circumstances in His life

Family’s the luck of the draw, Lena. What you make of yourself, because of or despite it, that’s where the spine and heart come in.

The taste of your life depends on the spices you used to brew it. Add laziness to it and it becomes bitter as the bile

Let this circumstance of our constitution therefore be directed to this noble purpose, and then all the objections urged against it by jealous tyranny and affrighted superstition will vanish.

When people are talking about you, it means that you exist.

I don't mind letting people in a little bit, but I have learned from the past not to talk too much about my relationships and to keep things as private as possible.

Ayo, shout out to Mobb Deep, the Extra P Busta Rhymes, De La, the J Beez, so don't sleep

when you came you cried and everybody smiled with joy; when you go smile and let the world cry for you.

These hands belong to Rachel Joy Scott and will someday touch millions of people's hearts.

I was a bit of a rebel.