No matter how hard you kick, no matter how high you get, you can't go all the way around.

Some tourists think Amsterdam is a city of sin, but in truth it is a city of freedom. And in freedom, most people find sin.

I liked that he was a tenured professor in the Department of Slightly Crooked Smiles with a dual appointments in the Department of Having a Voice that Made My Skin Feel More Like Skin.

Oh, I wouldn't mind, Hazel Grace. It would be a privilege to have my heart broken by you.

I'll fight it. I'll fight it for you. Don't you worry about me, Hazel Grace. I'm okay. I'll find a way to hang around and annoy you for a long time.

As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.

You are so busy being YOU that you have no idea how utterly unprecedented you are.

It's not life or death, the labyrinth. Suffering. Doing wrong and having wrong things happen to you.

That's the thing about pain, it demands to be felt.

You don't get to choose if you get hurt in this world...but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices.

I'm in love with you, and I'm not in the business of denying myself the simple pleasure of saying true things.

You may know me... But you have no idea who I am...

If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.

I love Latino culture but I hate the concept of "la raza." It is a divisive mindset.

People ask me, 'What do you do?' And I tell them I'm a writer, but always with the silent reservation, 'I am, of course, not really a writer. Hemingway was a writer.'

Average is a failing plan! Average doesn't work in any area of life. Anything that you give only average amounts of attention to will start to subside and will eventually cease to exist.

Boy, I feel more and more undeserving each moment !!

You have not learned to live until you have learned to give

Horses have never hurt anyone yet, except when they bet on them.

There are no secrets of success. Success is doing the things you know you should do. Success is not doing the things you know you should not do.

Taint no law on earth dat kin make a man be decent if it aint in 'im.