I have no plans to love you," said Coraline. "No matter what. You can't make me love you.

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.

It taught that there are three versions of things: the one I see in my mind, and the one that carries onto the paper, and then what it ultimately becomes.

Each day was very much like any other day, because they were alone so much that nothing ever disturbed them.

You are responsible for your calling and you must give account

Now many enterprises are made by individuals, so the attitude has started to change.

Before I write down one word, I have to have the character in my mind through and through. I must penetrate into the last wrinkle of his soul.

The more you live, the less you die.

The best way to begin disarming is to begin-and the United States is ready to conclude firm agreements in these areas and to consider any other reasonable proposal.

God alone is entirely exempt from all want of human virtues, that which needs least is the most absolute and divine.

The idea that money is corrupting innocent politicians would be laughable if it did not lead to such dangerous legislation.

The rich invest in time, the poor invest in money.