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

I fear oblivion' he said. "I fear it like a proverbial blind man fears the dark

I'm on a roller coaster which only goes up my friend

I'm feeling grand. I'm on a rollercoaster only going up.

There are times when it is conservative to be a revolutionary, when the world must be turned on its head in order to be stood on its feet.

Simplicity boils down to two steps: Identify the essential. Eliminate the rest.

We all have experiences in our lives that change us, and we all learn from people, like my dad, but at the end of the day, it's only us. And we're only responsible to make ourselves happy.

The Olympic Movement is a 20th century religion. Where there is no injustice of caste, of race, of family, of wealth.

Nobody knows that they're going to be Champions - you have to work to get there.

Film in the 20th century, it's the American art form, like jazz.

Write or draw or build or sing or live as only you can. And I hope, somewhere in the next year, you surprise yourself.

We're all influenced by everything unless we're locked in an empty room.

I have reached the point where I know that as long as I sit down to write, the ideas will come. What they will be, I don't know.

It's never a good idea to organize society in a way that depletes the energy of half the population.