Happiness is not based on possessions, power or prestige, but on relationships with people you love and respect.

Love is when the other person's happiness is more important than your own.

When you can’t change the direction of the wind — adjust your sails

Hope is not a resting place but a starting point - a cactus, not a cushion

Every person that you meet knows something you don't; learn from them.

Life is slippery. Here, take my hand.

Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than one with all the facts.

If you're doing your best, you won't have any time to worry about failure.

Today, give a stranger one of your smiles. It might be the only sunshine he sees all day.

Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.

Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness.

Of course, not everything is unsayable in words, only the living truth.

You can't jump for the stars if your feet hurt. And when you get where you're going, you darn well better look great!

If you have learned to be good by yourself you will always be.

Oh, I wouldn't mind, hazel grace. It would be a privilege to have my heart broken by you.

Maybe there is no actual place called hell. Maybe hell is just having to listen to our grandparents breathe through their noses when they're eating sandwiches.

Those of us with water in our personalities don't pick where we'll flow to. All we can do is flow where the landscape of our lives carries us

So tell me what I see when I look in your eyes, is that you baby or just a brilliant disguise?

I kind of go in waves with reading. Sometimes I read all the time, and sometimes I can't get settled enough to focus.

Pro Publica distorts the relationship between organizations and their consultants.

I was a very hard-edged geometric painter, strongly influenced by [Piet] Mondrian and [Theo] van Doesburg and that sort of thing.