If you're making mistakes it means you're out there doing something.

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.

...but one can't be irredeemable who shows reverence for books.

To experience a great result is for everyone to be part of extending the reign of God’s love

There are a lot of people who that you may only nod to; it's better to stop and say hello.

It is the activity of the intellect that constitutes complete human happiness - provided it be granted a complete span of life, for nothing that belongs to happiness can be incomplete.

Enemy-occupied territory - that is what this world is.

You do not have to seek God's will when you are doing God's will.

You can't know how weird your own life is until you get some distance on it. Everything seems mundane or boring or embarrassingly small.

You cannot leave the house to take the garbage out without full-on makeup and your hair done. You have to fight for your man out there.

Not to know how to deny our soul its own wishes, is to foment a very hot-bed of vices.

Akri hides from no one. He don’t need to. Anyone hurt my akri, I eat them. (Simi)