Happiness is the most natural thing in the world when you have it, and the slowest, strangest, most impossible thing when you don't. It's like learning a foreign language: You can think about the words all you want, but you'll never be able to speak it until you suck up your courage and say them out loud.

I stared at her closely, studying her face, her eyes, everything. This was the angel that tamed a demon; the soul that trapped him and held him with a power he'd never felt before. Love.

There are some things more important than ourselves - more important than the limits of the present, and the whims of the now. There is a future to build and protect. And if we're going to make that future as reality, we have to stop fighting among ourselves. We have to end dissent whenever we find it. We have to trust one another again.

If my life had no meaning there was no reason not to end it.

If you have the strength to whine, you have the strength to do something about it.

Embrace your complexity, stretch your creativity, and live up to your potential, you are what makes the world great.

Life is a lone wolf, scratching out a living with teeth and claws and a heart of stone.