That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you're not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.

For what it's worth, it's never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you're proud of and if you find that you're not, I hope you have the strength to start over.

You are the finest, loveliest, tenderest, and most beautiful person I have ever known—and even that is an understatement.

And in the end, we were all just humans...Drunk on the idea that love, only love, could heal our brokenness.

Suddenly she realized that what she was regretting was not the lost past but the lost future, not what had not been but what would never be.

To be kind is more important than to be right. Many times, what people need is not a brilliant mind that speaks but a special heart that listens.

The world only exists in your eyes. You can make it as big or as small as you want

Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.

There are all kinds of love in this world but never the same love twice.

You have a place in my heart no one else ever could have.

The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.

Faith is rare because fear is rampant. For faith will demand that I step into places that fear itself fears to go.

Young bodies are like tender plants, which grow and become hardened to whatever shape you've trained them.

When opponents of evolution object that human beings are not mere apes, they are correct. We are also part bee.

The only thing more dangerous than ignorance is arrogance

I really think the biopic thing so rarely works, because peoples lives dont have a dramatic shape that can be satisfying.

Illusion is an anodyne, bred by the gap between wish and reality.

If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.

Life excites me-just little, normal, everyday things. Getting out of bed. Getting dressed. Making food. I find it all exciting.

The motto of Harvard isn't 'nice,' it's truth. The motto of Yale isn't 'light and nice,' it's light and truth.

Don't watch" the redheaded mind reader whispered. I closed my eyes.