“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”

“Thomas Edison's last words were "It's very beautiful over there." I don't know where "there" is, but I believe it's somewhere, and I hope it's beautiful.”

“Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.”

“The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven.”

“Oh, I wouldn't mind, Hazel Grace. It would be a privilege to have my heart broken by you.”

“We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.”

“Someday you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.”

“Listen to the mustn'ts, child. Listen to the don'ts. Listen to the shouldn'ts, the impossibles, the won'ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me: Anything can happen, child. Anything can be.”

“A mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.”

“Hope is the thing with feathers.”

“You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You're on your own, and you know what you know. And YOU are the one who'll decide where to go.”

“Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.”

“If there's a book you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”

“The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.”

“Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?”

“Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they'll wait for you forever; pay attention to them and they always love you back.”

“You are, and always have been, my dream.”

“To the people who look at the stars and wish.”

“I believe in everything until it's disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it's in your mind. Who's to say that dreams and nightmares aren't as real as the here and now?”

“So I love you because the entire universe conspired to help me find you.”

“What is the point of being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable?”

“The Road Not Taken”

“There will come a time when all of us are dead. All of us. There will come a time when there are no human beings remaining to remember that anyone ever existed or that our species ever did anything. There will be no one left to remember Aristotle or Cleopatra, let alone you. Everything that we did and built and wrote and thought and discovered will be forgotten and all of this will have been for naught. Maybe that time is coming soon and maybe it is millions of years away, but even if we survive the collapse of our sun, we will not survive forever. There was time before organisms experienced consciousness, and there will be time after. And if the inevitability of human oblivion worries you, I encourage you to ignore it. God knows that’s what everyone else does.”

“Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.”

“Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot.”

“All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”

“For those who believe in God, most of the big questions are answered. But for those of us who can't readily accept the God formula, the big answers don't remain stone-written. We adjust to new conditions and discoveries. We are pliable. Love need not be a command nor faith a dictum. I am my own god. We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and our educational system. We are here to drink beer. We are here to kill war. We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.”

“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.”

“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”

“May you live every day of your life.”

“I carry your heart with me (I carry it in my heart). I am never without it (anywhere I go, you go, my dear).”

“I believe that mankind's destiny lies in the stars. I believe that candy really did taste better when I was a kid, that it's aerodynamically impossible for a bumble bee to fly, that light is a wave and a particle, that there's a cat in a box somewhere who's alive and dead at the same time (although if they don't ever open the box to feed it it'll eventually just be two different kinds of dead), and that there are stars in the universe billions of years older than the universe itself.”

“You can never be overdressed or overeducated.”

“All the world is made of faith, and trust, and pixie dust.”

“The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only one page.”

“It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything.”

“The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.”

“In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.”

“It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.”

“You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.”

“When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.”

“Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions.”

“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.”

“We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.”

“Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them.”

“Love is like the wind, you can't see it but you can feel it.”

“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, 'Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?' Actually, who are you not to be?”

“You don't have a soul, Doctor. You are a soul. You have a body, temporarily.”

“To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.”

“Sometimes you wake up. Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly.”