“If you're lonely when you're alone, you're in bad company.”

“Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.”

“Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.”

“No thief, however skillful, can rob one of knowledge, and that is why knowledge is the best and safest treasure to acquire.”

“Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape; it's a way to make contact with reality after a day of making things up, and it's a way of making contact with someone else's imagination after a day that's all too real.”

“What is love? I met in the streets a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat was worn, the water passed through his shoes and the stars through his soul.”

“War must be, while we defend our lives against a destroyer who would devour all; but I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend.”

“Why didn't I learn to treat everything like it was the last time? My greatest regret was how much I believed in the future.”

“Treat everyone with politeness and kindness, not because they are nice, but because you are.”

“Some say the world will end in fire,”

“The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You trade in your sense for an act. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask. There can't be any large-scale revolution until there's a personal revolution, on an individual level. It's got to happen inside first.”

“Don't be afraid of your fears. They're not there to scare you. They're there to let you know that something is worth it.”

“Some things don't last forever, but some things do. Like a good song, or a good book, or a good memory you can take out and unfold in your darkest times, pressing down on the corners and peering in close, hoping you still recognize the person you see there.”

“She wasn't bitter. She was sad, though. But it was a hopeful kind of sad. The kind of sad that just takes time.”

“The paradox of our time in history is that we have taller buildings but shorter tempers, wider freeways but narrower viewpoints. We spend more but have less; we buy more but enjoy less. We have bigger houses and smaller families, more conveniences but less time. We have more degrees but less sense, more knowledge but less judgment, more experts yet more problems, more medicine but less wellness.”

“In the end, one needs more courage to live than to kill himself.”

“A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.”

“Music is a total constant. That's why we have such a strong visceral connection to it, you know? Because a song can take you back instantly to a moment, or a place, or even a person. No matter what else has changed in you or the world, that one song says the same, just like that moment.”

“Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?”

“Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow; it empties today of its strength.”

“Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?”

“And so it goes...”

“There is no real ending. It's just the place where you stop the story.”

“All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle.”

“Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.”

“It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it.”

“Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet.”

“I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.”

“It's enough for me to be sure that you and I exist at this moment.”

“There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because conscience tells him it is right.”

“I am coming to terms with the fact that loving someone requires a leap of faith, and that a soft landing is never guaranteed.”

“When I was a little girl I used to read fairy tales. In fairy tales you meet Prince Charming and he's everything you ever wanted. In fairy tales the bad guy is very easy to spot. The bad guy is always wearing a black cape so you always know who he is. Then you grow up and you realize that Prince Charming is not as easy to find as you thought. You realize the bad guy is not wearing a black cape and he's not easy to spot; he's really funny, and he makes you laugh, and he has perfect hair.”

“"The Guide says there is an art to flying," said Ford, "or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss."”

“And the rest is rust and stardust.”

“I suspect the truth is that we are waiting, all of us, against insurmountable odds, for something extraordinary to happen to us.”

“Weeds are flowers, too, once you get to know them.”

“I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself.”

“A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.”

“People aren't born good or bad. Maybe they're born with tendencies either way, but it's the way you live your life that matters.”

“If a relationship can't survive the long term, why would it be worth my time and energy for the short term?”

“The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.”

“And that's the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too.”

“But for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short.”

“I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers I have read, all the people I have met, all the women I have loved, and all the cities I have visited.”

“Learn to light a candle in the darkest moments of someone’s life. Be the light that helps others see; it is what gives life its deepest significance.”

“People find it far easier to forgive others for being wrong than for being right.”

“There are no happy endings.”

“A woman has to live her life, or live to repent not having lived it.”

“My life amounts to no more than one drop in a limitless ocean. Yet what is any ocean, but a multitude of drops?”

“The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.”