An adaptation leads the cinema-goer to the original to find out what they're missing and if they already know the book, it can still illuminate a theme, a character, an idea.

You can live your whole life not realizing that what you're looking for is right in front of you.

This is where it all begins. Everything starts here, today.

Be nice wont you?" "I am nice, I'm always nice." "But not too nice. I mean don't make a religion out of it, niceness.

Cherish your friends, stay true to your principles, live passionately and fully and well. Experience new things. Love and be loved, if you ever get the chance

Envy was just the tax you paid on success.

Salmon. Salmon, salmon, salmon, salmon. I eat so much salmon at these weddings, twice a year I get this urge to swim upstream.

I'm not the consolation prize, Dex. I'm not something you resort to. I happen to think I'm worth more than that.

Whatever happens tomorrow, we had today; and I'll always remember it

No, friends were like clothes: fine while they lasted but eventually they wore thin or you grew out of them.

Just kidding' was exactly what people wrote when they meant every word.

I'd grown impervious to all three of his facial expressions.

They might not like your uniqueness, but as long as you are happy with your inner-self, you should never dare to change your life to please them.

I've found that I seek out oddballs; I like strange and eccentric people a lot.

A thirsty ambition for truth and virtue, and a frenzy to conquer all lies and vices which are not recognized as such nor desire to be; herein consists the heroic spirit of the philosopher.

Be spacious. Open to listen and feel the other without prejudice.

Some people are born mediocre, some people achieve mediocrity, and some people have mediocrity thrust upon them.

People often ask me how I keep my priorities straight in life and I tell them that it is done by constantly straightening them out!

The true despisers of the world are the people who accept what God sends them, gratefully use all things when they have them, and gladly do without them if God takes them away

More primordial than any idea, beauty will be manifest as the herald and generator or ideas.

O Beauty, find thyself in love, not in the flattery of thy mirror.