“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.”

Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.

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

Begin with an individual, and before you know it you find that you have created a type; begin with a type, and you find that you have created – nothing.

Having once found the intensity of art, nothing else that can happen in life can ever again seem as important as the creative process.

I’m a slave to my emotions, to my likes, to my hatred of boredom, to most of my desires.

She wanted to crawl into his pocket and be safe forever.

Intelligence is measured by a person’s ability to see validity within both sides of contradicting arguments.

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.

Control what you can control today!

Make a mental list of happy thoughts and pass them through your mind several times every day.

All too often, we spend our days waiting for the ideal path to appear in front of us. We forget that paths are made by walking, not waiting.

Motivation gets you through the day, but inspiration lasts a lifetime.

In real life there are no bad guys. Everybody just has their own perspective.

Nothing but the taste of silence touching her lips these days.

The quality of success you will experience in your life ultimately depends upon the tiny choices you make every minute of every hour of every day.

It is almost possible to predict one or two days in advance, within a rather broad range of probability, what the weather is going to be; it is even thought that it will not be impossible to publish daily forecasts, which would be very useful to soci.