Patience is the art of finding something else to do.
No one would want to read a book in which I explain the science of cloning because it would be very dull and it would also make no sense.
The important people in our lives leave imprints. They may stay or go in the physical realm, but they are always there in your heart, because they helped form your heart. There's no getting over that.
I've always resented Hermione, because I wanted to be her so badly and she never seemed to appreciate as much as I thought she should that she got be her. She got to live at Hogwarts and be friends with Harry and kiss Ron, which was supposed to happen to me.
No--when the rain falls you just let it fall and you grin like a madman and you dance with it, because if you can make yourself happy in the rain then you're doing pretty alright in life. (Nick, page 156)
I want to believe there is a somebody out there for me. I want to believe that I exist to be there for that somebody.
When in doubt, ingest carbs.
Make peace with the knowledge that you can't have everything you want. Why? Because it's more important for us to get everything we need.
Whenever we feel lost, or insane, or afraid, all we have to do is ask for His help. The help might not come in the form we expected, or even thought we desired, but it will come, and we will recognize it by how we feel. In spite of everything, we will feel at peace.
I try not to get caught up on how cool I am. That way nothing ever gets done. I'm always thinking about what I haven't done.
Medicine was certainly intended to be a career. I wanted to become a psychiatrist, an adolescent ambition which, of course, is fulfilled by many psychiatrists.