“It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.”

“The secret of life is to fall seven times and get up eight.”

“Death's got an Invisibility Cloak?”

“We loved with a love that was more than love.”

“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.”

“When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.”

“With great power comes great need to take a nap. Wake me up later.”

“Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.”

“It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.”

“If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.”

“Do you hate people?”

“I love mankind... it's people I can't stand!”

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

“There is no friend as loyal as a book.”

“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”

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

“Saying 'I notice you're a nerd' is like saying, 'Hey, I notice that you'd rather be intelligent than be stupid, that you'd rather be thoughtful than be vapid, that you believe that there are things that matter more than the arrest record of Lindsay Lohan. Why is that?' In fact, it seems to me that most contemporary insults are pretty lame. Even 'lame' is kind of lame. Saying 'You're lame' is like saying 'You walk with a limp.' Yeah, whatever, so does 50 Cent, and he's done all right for himself.”

“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).”

“Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.”

“Libraries were full of ideas, perhaps the most dangerous and powerful of all weapons.”

“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.”

“Sometimes people are beautiful.”

“Destroying things is much easier than making them.”

“The world is not a wish-granting factory.”

“You can never be overdressed or overeducated.”

“All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt.”

“Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.”

“It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.”

“Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.”

“You know the world is going crazy when the best rapper is a white guy, the best golfer is a black guy, the tallest guy in the NBA is Chinese, the Swiss hold the America's Cup, France is accusing the U.S. of arrogance, Germany doesn't want to go to war, and the three most powerful men in America are named "Bush", "Dick", and "Colin." Need I say more?”

“A person's a person, no matter how small.”

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

“Deep in the meadow, hidden far away.”

“Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an automobile.”

“'Classic' - a book which people praise and don't read.”

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

“Death ends a life, not a relationship.”

“Don't think or judge, just listen.”

“A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest.”

“For attractive lips, speak words of kindness.”

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

“Those who believe in telekinesis, raise my hand.”

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

“You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view; until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.”

“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.”