Life plays the same lovely and agonizing joke on all of us.

For what it's worth, it's never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you're proud of and if you find that you're not, I hope you have the strength to start over.

You are the finest, loveliest, tenderest, and most beautiful person I have ever known—and even that is an understatement.

And in the end, we were all just humans...Drunk on the idea that love, only love, could heal our brokenness.

Suddenly she realized that what she was regretting was not the lost past but the lost future, not what had not been but what would never be.

To be kind is more important than to be right. Many times, what people need is not a brilliant mind that speaks but a special heart that listens.

The world only exists in your eyes. You can make it as big or as small as you want

Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.

There are all kinds of love in this world but never the same love twice.

You have a place in my heart no one else ever could have.

The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.

I swear to hold my tongue about it till the end of your worship's days, and God grant I may be able to let it out tomorrow

The great are eternally at the mercy of tiny men. And also, tiny madwomen.

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

I think hearts are very much like glasses. If they do not break with the first ring, they usually last a considerable time.

Government is the art of the momentary feasible, of the least bad attainable, and not of the rationally most desirable.

The man who goes afoot, prepared to camp anywhere and in any weather, is the most independent fellow on earth.

Simplicity is really hard.

I don't think there are many people up in research who have strong ideas about things that they haven't really had experience with.

You mustn’t be so open-minded that your brains fall out.