Going off the grid is always good for me. It's the way that I've started books and finished books and gotten myself out of deadline dooms and things.

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.

Wounds may heal, but the scars remain.

We are living in very challenging times. Pressured in the workplace and stressed out at home, people are trying to make sense of their lives.

Islam will win with or without you, but without Islam you will get lost and lose.

While I have served in public office for 30 years, my professional training is as a pharmacist, not a lawyer or an accountant.

No doubt another may also think for me; but it is not therefore desirable that he should do so to the exclusion of my thinking for myself.

There is no getting around these essential ingredients: determination, effort and time. These are the real secrets to happiness.

That which is usually called dotage is not the weak point of all old men, but only of such as are distinguished by their levity.

I hate the idea of success robbing you of your private life.

Memories just get richer with time.

He was sick of God and God's religion, sick of all the little religious social clubs that didn't seem to make any real difference or affect any real changes.