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

“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.”

“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.”

“What you seek is seeking you.”

“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 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 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.”

“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.”

“"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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Love is always patient and kind. It is never jealous. Love is never boastful or conceited. It is never rude or selfish. It does not take offense and is not resentful. Love takes no pleasure in other people's sins, but delights in the truth. It is always ready to excuse, to trust, to hope, and to endure whatever comes.”

“It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you might be swept off to.”

“Well, I'm not kissing the mundane. I'd rather stay down here and rot.”

“We are all different. Don't judge; understand instead.”

“No one ever told me I was pretty when I was a little girl. All little girls should be told they're pretty, even if they aren't.”

“"May I see you again?" he asked. There was an endearing nervousness in his voice.”

“I'm not saying that everything is survivable. Just that everything except the last thing is.”

“I don't want to die without any scars.”

“Why fit in when you were born to stand out?”

“People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for.”

“What's meant to be will always find a way.”

“I spent my life folded between the pages of books.”

“Life is a disease: sexually transmitted, and invariably fatal.”

“Should I kill myself, or have a cup of coffee?”

“Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life's cruelest irony.”

“Not everything is about you.”