“I’m a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won’t.”

I won’t kiss you. It might get to be a habit and I can’t get rid of habits.

Hard to sit here and be close to you, and not kiss you.

I never blame failure – there are too many complicated situations in life – but I am absolutely merciless toward lack of effort.

Her philosophy is carpe diem for herself and laissez faire for others.

It is not merely enough to have the ability to be persistant, you must also have the ability to start over.

Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.

Tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther.

I don’t want just words. If that’s all you have for me, you’d better go.

I’m not sure what I’ll do, but— well, I want to go places and see people. I want my mind to grow. I want to live where things happen on a big scale.

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.

Too much of anything is bad, but too much Champagne is just right.

I didn’t realize it, but the days came along one after another, and then two years were gone, and everything was gone, and I was gone.

I am tired of knowing nothing and being reminded of it all the time.

It was only a sunny smile, and little it cost in the giving, but like morning light it scattered the night and made the day worth living.

Things are sweeter when they’re lost. I know–because once I wanted something and got it. It was the only thing I ever wanted badly, Dot, and when I got it it turned to dust in my hand.

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

Defiling flesh in hope to see divine created by sin we are gods work.

In mathematics we have long since drawn the rein, and given over a hopeless race.

I’m hoping you find your passion, a calling that matters.

There is always something left to love.

I don’t think in art there is ever a precedent; each moment is a new one and terrifying and threatening and bursting with hope.

I learned that I cannot lay down my hope to people, because people break my heart too.

Today we have the economic collapse that the whole planet is suffering, but there is hope, and that’s what’s going to keep us moving ahead.

Hope is on the horizon, we just have to look up.