If growing up means not seeing one’s family and friends on the regular—all in the name of paying the bills, then growing up is overrated.

Don't let anybody try to change who you are, because at the end of the day, you are the one who must live with yourself.

All he'd done was lose her underwear and practically get her blown up.Hell. This had to be the absolute worst first date of her life.

It's amazing how people can be so blind to what's good for them and what isn't, what's truth and what's not, or the difference between secrets and things just not yet known.

Sometimes fate or life or whatever you want to call it, leaves a door a little open and you walk through it. But sometimes it locks the door and you have to find the key, or pick the lock, or knock the damn thing down. And sometimes, it doesn’t even show

All the labour of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled.

Hearts can't be broken because they're made of marzipan.

Pretend that you're a clever shepherd girl, and you're just dressed up in pretty clothes, and you're trying to make everybody believe that you're a spoiled, empty-headed little princess. So no one guesses that under your clothes you're a brave shepherd gi

The problem with being young and in a singular place is that one assumes that one will inevitably find oneself in an equally foreign and exotic location at some later point in life. But this is rarely true.

Insanity is when you keep doing something that does not work

Remember as you go about your day that you may be the only Jesus some of your friends, neighbors, and family will ever see.

The right way to reign in healthcare costs is not by applying more government and more controls and making it more like the post office, it's by making it more like a consumer-driven market.