My type of humor is me not caring whether people know what I'm talking about or not.
It doesn't matter who you were or what you've done in the past. The only thing that matters is who you are right now.
What? It's my job as best friend to make sure he's not a serial killer. Or an English major, not sure which one's worse.
Battle scars just remind us that we survived.
. . . now Eli was my new neighbor. Which was fine with me because I sucked at Math. Math and I were not on speaking terms.
Everything we'll accomplish, we'll do it together or not at all.
The things we should focus on in any life shouldn't be what we've lost, but what we've gained
A dog comes to you and lives with you in your own house, but you do not therefore own her, as you do not own the rain, or the trees, or the laws which pertain to them. . . A dog can never tell you what she knows from the smells of the world, but you know, watching her, that you know almost nothing. . .
Now, mark my words. So long as we are a young and virtuous people, this instument will bind us together in mutual interests, mutual welfare, and mutual happiness. But when we become old and corrupt, it will bind no longer.
There is no problem in human life that apprenticeship to Jesus cannot solve.
Some may say [journal keeping] is a great deal of trouble. But we should not call anything trouble which brings to pass good. I consider that portion of my life which has been spent in keeping journals and writing history to have been very profitably spent. - "If there was no other motive in view [except] to have the privilege of reading over our journals and for our children to read, it would pay for the time spent in writing it.