“Real life is a funny thing, you know. In real life saying the right thing at the right time is beyond crucial.”

No matter how bad your day is, just be grateful this day is added to your life.

Words can break someone into a million pieces, but they can also put them back together. I hope you use yours for good, because the only words you’ll regret more than the ones left unsaid are the ones you use to intentionally hurt someone.

Happiness and confidence are the prettiest things you can wear.

There’s more to life than dating the boy on the football team.

Step into the daylight and let it go.

You are the best thing that’s ever been mine.

I approach love differently now that I know it’s hard for it to work out.

My heart’s been borrowed and yours has been blue. All’s well that ends well, to end up with you.

I don’t think you should ever take life so serious that you forget to play.

Love is one of those things that should be so simple. You don’t need to think about it and over analyze it when it’s good.

I think that you can love people without it being the great love.

You are the only one who gets to decide what you will be remembered for.

It’s hard to fight when the fight ain’t fair.

Hold on to the memories, they will hold on to you.

A good relationship is all about balance and chemistry.

In a relationship each person should support the other; they should lift each other up.

The book itself is a curious artifact, not showy in its technology but complex and extremely efficient: a really neat little device, compact, often very pleasant to look at and handle, that can last decades, even centuries.

Courage is required not only in a person’s occasional crucial decision for his own freedom, but in the little hour-to-hour decisions which place the bricks in the structure of his building of himself into a person who acts with freedom and responsibility.

Practice habits were crucial to my development in basketball.

Coaches do so much research about a referee because they believe refereeing is such a crucial part of the game that the result may hinge on what we say or do.

The work the Mexicans are doing in terms of migration control on Mexico’s southern border is crucial to our own border security.

Our responses to the world are crucially moulded by the company we keep, for we temper our curiosity to fit in with the expectations of others.

You can’t make accommodations in crucial situations and be heroic.

The teenage years are ridiculously crucial and hard and, um, awkward.