“How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.”

“I love people who make me laugh. I honestly think it's the thing I like most, to laugh. It cures a multitude of ills. It's probably the most important thing in a person.”

“Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.”

“Laughter is timeless. Imagination has no age. Dreams are forever.”

“There comes a time when the world gets quiet and the only thing left is your own heart. So you'd better learn the sound of it. Otherwise you'll never understand what it's saying.”

“People haven't always been there for me, but music always has.”

“Here's all you have to know about men and women: women are crazy, men are stupid. And the main reason women are crazy is that men are stupid.”

“Always do what you are afraid to do.”

“I think if I've learned anything about friendship, it's to hang in, stay connected, fight for them, and let them fight for you. Don't walk away, don't be distracted, don't be too busy or tired, don't take them for granted. Friends are part of the glue that holds life and faith together. Powerful stuff.”

“It's only after you've stepped outside your comfort zone that you begin to change, grow, and transform.”

“What you seek is seeking you.”

“Love is so short, forgetting is so long.”

“When his life was ruined, his family killed, his farm destroyed, Job knelt down and yelled up to the heavens, "Why, God? Why me?" The thundering voice of God answered, "There's just something about you that pisses me off."”

“If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would turn to a mighty stranger.”

“Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.”

“They didn't agree on much. In fact, they didn't agree on anything. They fought all the time and challenged each other every day. But despite their differences, they had one important thing in common. They were crazy about each other.”

“The truth is, unless you let go, unless you forgive yourself, unless you forgive the situation, unless you realize that the situation is over, you cannot move forward.”

“When a man gives his opinion, he's a man. When a woman gives her opinion, she's a bitch.”

“My tastes are simple: I am easily satisfied with the best.”

“Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.”

“When you're struggling with something, look at all the people around you and realize that every single person you see is struggling with something, and to them, it's just as hard as what you're going through.”

“Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.”

“Be brave enough to live the life of your dreams according to your vision and purpose instead of the expectations and opinions of others.”

“To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's.”

“If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?”

“Hearts are made to be broken.”

“There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.”

“If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”

“When he shall die,”

“I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow; but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.”

“My experience of life is that it is not divided up into genres; it's a horrifying, romantic, tragic, comical, science-fiction cowboy detective novel. You know, with a bit of pornography if you're lucky.”

“Good books don't give up all their secrets at once.”

“Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these: "It might have been."”

“To be nobody but”

“I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look, or the words which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.”

“Whatever it is you're seeking won't come in the form you're expecting.”

“Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.”

“Kiss me, and you will see how important I am.”

“"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife," I said, sighing. "Is it?" Veronica asked, surprised. "Universally acknowledged? Surely that presupposes societies beyond this planet, and besides..." "No, no, it's a quote from... Never mind," I said.”

“No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.”

“My nightmares are usually about losing you. I'm okay once I realize you're here.”

“What I want is to be needed. What I need is to be indispensable to somebody. Who I need is somebody that will eat up all my free time, my ego, my attention. Somebody addicted to me. A mutual addiction.”

“I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.”

“Fear doesn't shut you down; it wakes you up.”

“Be careful of love. It'll twist your brain around and leave you thinking up is down and right is wrong.”

“What matters most is how well you walk through the fire.”

“I think... if it is true that”

“War is what happens when language fails.”

“There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man.”

“Unbeing dead isn't being alive.”