A short story is the ultimate close-up magic trick -- a couple of thousand words to take you around the universe or break your heart.

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.

Life is all about exploring yourself, discovering yourself and grooming yourself, then you will surely stop negative thinking.

We can bring into being, the things we dream. So much of what we are is, limited or expanded by, what we think.

Life would have been easier if he'd never taught her to believe in heroes by handing her those cookies that day, but it wouldn't have been nearly as magnificent either.

Dr. King's leadership reaffirmed the promise of our democracy: that everyday people, working together, have the power to change our government and our institutions for the better.

Drink without getting drunk Love without suffering jealousy Eat without overindulging Never argue And once in a while, with great discretion, misbehave

This is what a memorial is: standing still, staring at something that isn’t ther

Girls are supposed to dance. That's why god gave them parts that jiggle.

A ray of imagination or of wisdom may enlighten the universe, and glow into remotest centuries.

I could fall for you in a heartbeat

Formula One was a very dangerous sport. It still is dangerous. But the danger factor is also the exciting part.