One of the Great Rules of Economics According to John Green If you are rich, you have to be an idiot not to stay rich. And if you are poor, you have to be really smart to get rich.

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.

Amsterdam is like the rings of a tree: It gets older as you get closer to the center.

I feel like crying, so I must be crying, but it's impossible to tell because I'm underwater.

...And in freedom, most people find sin.

So I walked back to my room and collapsed on the bottom bunk, thinking that if people were rain, I was drizzle and she was a hurricane.

A taste so profound and complex that it can't even be compared to other tastes, only to emotions. Cheesy waffles, I was thinking, tastes like love without the fear of love's dissolution.

My thoughts are stars I cannot fathom into constellations.

The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.

All those paper people living in their paper houses, burning the future to stay warm.

I would always love Alaska Young, my crooked neighbor, with all my crooked heart.

I have always believed that poems beg to be read aloud, even if the reader is in a world all her own.

What do you think I live on, rainwater and daydreams?

In this business (showbiz) it takes time to be really good and by that time, you're obsolete.

When you remain present to the goal at hand, you become ready to receive a powerful gift.

It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck and he cast into the sea.

I think I have an addiction to pretty much everything. I mean, I have to be very careful with myself as far as that goes, which is why I have a support group around me consistently.

The growth and development of the soul is more important than power and glory.

Right up until the time I retired at age 37, I felt like there were still things that I could do better.

It's never the next brief, it's ALWAYS THIS brief .

Any action in which you can be total becomes meditation.