you only know you can do something if you keep on doing it

Victory is a thousand times sweeter when you're the underdog.

Would you rather live one perfect day over and over or live your life with no perfect days but just decent ones?

It's the imperfections that make things beautiful.

We stood there, looking at each other, saying nothing. But it was the kind of nothing that meant everything.

Life doesn't have to be so planned. Just roll with it and let it happen.

It's a lot of responsibility to hold a person's heart in your hands.

He didn't give me flowers or candy. He gave me the moon and the stars. Infinity.

I've always loved the first day of school better than the last day of school. Firsts are best because they are beginnings.

It’s hard to throw away history. It was like you were throwing away a part of yourself.

But the little things are what make up life

The world is a better place to live in because it contains human beings who will give up ease and security and stake their own lives in order to do what they themselves think worth doing.

I wanted to continue the course, continue on what "we" had, and wanted life to be the same. However, the Titanic had hit the iceberg, the "done" couldn’t be changed now.

At some point, I had to start laughing, because I was all wrung out from crying.

There is no precedent of a civilian population, displaced by a war that their leadership started and lost, claiming a right to return to territory that they failed to conquer.

Hey, you created me! I didn't create some loser alter-ego to make myself feel better. Take some responsibility!

The habit of mind which leads to a search for relationships between facts becomes of the highest importance in the production of ideas.

Do definite good; first of all to yourself, then to definite persons.

You are a Queen. Let mine be the joy of giving you your kingdom.

It's all so beautiful . . . the spring . . . and books and music and fires. . . . Why aren't they enough?

We've all of us got to meet the devil alone. Temptation is a lonely business.