Letters are the real curse of my existence. I hate to write them: I have to. If I don't, there they are - the great guilty gates barring my way.

If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.

Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different.

Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy, you can't build on it it's only good for wallowing in.

How hard it is to escape from places. However carefully one goes they hold you — you leave little bits of yourself fluttering on the fences — like rags and shreds of your very life.

Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.

I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.

The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.

Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back.

I am poor - obscure - just eighteen years of age - with a rapacious appetite for everything and principles as light as my purse.

The mind I love must have wild places.

We are but a bunch of neurons.

No course was open to me save to leap, with eyes self-bound, into the yawning abyss of the future.

You have so much love in you. Trust your firends and family. They're all you have, but they're precious, the most important part of your life.

Listen, and you will realize that we are made not from cells or from atoms. We are made from stories.

I fold my hands under my head and tell the books all about you. They listen, Beck. I know it sounds crazy, but they do.

It is not the fact that we are united in common goals or purposes that makes us a community. Rather, it is the fact that we share a common life in Christ.

The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the core of strength within you that survives all hurt.

I'd pick fortune over fame any day.

I believe that each of us-no matter what our age or background or walk of life-each of us has something to contribute to the life of this nation.

Economists are people who wonder if what works in reality can also work in theory.