Books smell and feel better. They have that wonderful thingness of turning the pages.

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.

Find yourself, so you will find the world inside you, love yourself and you will feel the world is loving you.

Identity was everything, but it seemed I never had one. (Jessica)

What birds can have their bills more peculiarly formed than the ibis, the spoonbill, and the heron?

Freedom is heavy. You got to put your shoulder to freedom. Put your shoulder to it and hope your back holds up.

A theory is no more like a fact than a photograph is like a person.

The leg of a baby is stronger than the balls of Muhamed Ali

The commendation of adversaries is the greatest triumph of a writer, because it never comes unless extorted.

Hold on to your dreams for they are, in a sense, the stuff of which reality is made. It is through our dreams that we maintain the possibility of a better, more meaningful life.

In my own life I like to be poised and have a positive outlook on life, and I'm leading by example to my children and people around me.

Wait to start a startup until you come up with an idea that you feel compelled to explore.