Because there are mysteries. Because there are things that people are forbidden to speak about. Because there are things they do not remember.

I really don't know what "I love you" means. I think it means "Don't leave me here alone.

Go, and make interesting mistakes, make amazing mistakes, make glorious and fantastic mistakes. Break rules. Leave the world more interesting for your being here.

You’re alive. That means you have infinite potential. You can do anything, make anything, dream anything.

Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.

The one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and dance and live as only you can.

There are so many fragile things, after all. People break so easily, and so do dreams and hearts.

You have to finish things - that's what you learn from, you learn by finishing things.

People think dreams aren't real just because they aren't made of matter, of particles. Dreams are real. But they are made of viewpoints, of images, of memories and puns and lost hopes.

Google can bring you back 100,000 answers. A librarian can bring you back the right one.

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

Trust me, change can happen in much less time given the right circumstances. Hell, sometimes the people we're closest to change and there's nothing we can do to bring them back.

Tread lightly on your partner’s heart. It was given to you for safekeeping.

What marvel things are waiting for us in the future? What horrible things are waiting for us? Whatever is waiting for us, we always want to be in the future, ready to celebrate and ready to fight!

A man is not hurt so much by what happens, as by his opinion of what happens.

All meaningful and lasting change starts first in your imagination and then works its way out. Imagination is more important than knowledge.

I make fun of people who are religious, because they're fundamentally weak.

Right after the tragedy, President Bush asked Americans to get on with their lives and we did.

Aging and its evidence remain lifes most predictable events, yet they also remain matters we prefer to leave unmentioned, unexplored.

No long-term marriage is made easily, and there have been times when I've been so angry or so hurt that I thought my love would never recover.

You can't just be a recipient of a blessing, you have to do something to make it happen.