It’s lovely to know that the world can’t interfere with the inside of your head.

You might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace.

Stock your mind. It is your house of treasure and no one in the world can interfere with it.

Sing your song. Dance your dance. Tell your tale.

I say, Billy, what’s the use in playing croquet when you’re doomed? He says, Frankie, what’s the use of not playing croquet when you’re doomed?

I learned the significance of my own insignificant life.

After a full belly all is poetry.

It's not enough to be American. You always have to be something else, Irish-American, German-American, and you'd wonder how they'd get along if someone hadn't invented the hyphen

A mother's love is a blessing No matter where you roam. Keep her while you have her, You'll miss her when she's gone -- Angela's Ashes.

The sky is the limit. You never have the same experience twice.

Keep scribbling! Something will happen.

I'll fight it. I'll fight it for you. Don't you worry about me, Hazel Grace. I'm okay. I'll find a way to hang around and annoy you for a long time.

Livvy noted there seemed some communal feeling between the married: any wife could be faintly rude to anyone else's husband.

What await you

Annie looks dreamy, but she always does because she can’t see farther than three feet away. Elizabeth looks vaguely angry, but she always does because she can see farther than three feet away.

A good horse should be seldom spurred.

I'm a huge Dirty Dancing fan. I feel like I should be reading [William] Shakespeare, but I'm watching Baby not be in a corner.

Editing and post-production is so important with comedy.

Every individual can improve from day to day, from year to year, and have greater capacity to do things as the years come and the years go.

Playing a villain was fun, only because you get to do all the things you wouldn't normally do in your real life.

Life matters more than any painting, novel, film, or great big diamond.