There's none so blind as those who will not listen.

I really don't know what "I love you" means. I think it means "Don't leave me here alone.

Go, and make interesting mistakes, make amazing mistakes, make glorious and fantastic mistakes. Break rules. Leave the world more interesting for your being here.

You’re alive. That means you have infinite potential. You can do anything, make anything, dream anything.

Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.

The one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and dance and live as only you can.

There are so many fragile things, after all. People break so easily, and so do dreams and hearts.

You have to finish things - that's what you learn from, you learn by finishing things.

People think dreams aren't real just because they aren't made of matter, of particles. Dreams are real. But they are made of viewpoints, of images, of memories and puns and lost hopes.

Google can bring you back 100,000 answers. A librarian can bring you back the right one.

Sometimes you wake up. Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly.

It would take entire lifetimes for the men of Carthya to deserve their women.

We even had a different word for Christmas in my language, Bengali: Baradin, which literally meant 'big day.'

As a kid, I spent every summer bent over a stack of books, obsessively writing detailed reports on each one.

Spelling mistakes in a letter is like a bug on a white shirt.

It's kind of astonishing that people trust strangers because of words they write on computer screens.

People see him as a hero. Not just in Zimbabwe or here in Zambia but across the whole of southern Africa. It's no good demonising Robert Mugabe.

Condense some daily experience into a glowing symbol and an audience is electrified.

I’m assuming those are Daimons. (Susan) No, they’re Avon ladies. (Ravyn)

Inside was where she lived, physically and mentally. She resided in the horn of plenty of her own prodigious mind, fertilized by inexhaustible curiosity.

My first paying job, when I was 15, I was a day camp counselor.