The only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves.

Spoon feeding, in the long run, teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.

We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.

One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested.

Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown

Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown. Through them we pass out into adventure and sunshine, to them, alas! we return.

I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars.

Ideas are fatal to caste.

Pathos, piety, courage, they exist, but are identical, and so is filth. Everything exists, nothing has value.

The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.

One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.

I'm really a peaceful sort of coward.

That's what I love. Not being interrupted, sitting in a car by myself and listening to music in the rain. There are so many great songs yet to sing

I don't know why they gave me a knighthood - though it's very nice of them - but I only ever use the title in the U.S. The Americans insist on it and get offended if I don't.

The only things people can ever know about you are the ones that you let them see

Whenever I see your smiling face, I have to smile myself, because I love you, yes I do.

This was not a place you go to live. It was a place you go to die."- Paper Towns

If the Richter scale could measure human calamities, the loss of a child would register a ten.

To the King, one must give his possessions and his life; but honour is a possession of soul, and the soul is only God's.

Education is very important to my parents and to me.

In a world of extreme beauty, anyone normal is ugly.