Make your lives extraordinary.

I want to know my whole story works before I start working.

Law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.

When you read, don't just consider what the author thinks, consider what you think.

Truth like a blanket that always leaves your feet cold screenwriter of Dead Poets' Society.

Mr. Anderson thinks that everything inside of him is worthless and embarrassing. Isn't that right, Todd? And that's your worse fear.

Let me dispel a few rumors so they don't fester into facts.

Believe it or not each and every one of us in this room is one day going to stop breathing, turn cold, and die

And medecine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love: these are what we stay alive for.

We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race.

We don't read and write poetry because it's cute.

So when it comes to Elvis and Joe, I have to trust my instincts, because they’ve gotten me here. And I have to write what I believe in, what I find moving.

You gotta go in the mud sometimes to figure who you are.

but their eyes were as cold blue glass buttons.

If we do not hang together, we shall surely hang separately.

Don't strive for perfection. It doesn't exist. Strive for a better you. That's always in reach.

The disgust with dirt can be so great that it keeps us from cleaning ourselves--from "justifying" ourselves.

Lord, I'm going to hold steady on to You and You've got to see me through.

I—I didn't think—" "That," said Professor McGonagall, "is obvious.

Libraries are places where the damaged go to find friends

The summer breeze was blowing on your face Within your violet you treasure your summery words And as the shiver from my neck down to my spine Ignited me in daylight and nature in the garden