To speak algebraically, Mr. M. is execrable, but Mr. G. is (x + 1)- ecrable.

The scariest monsters are the ones that lurk within our souls.

I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.

There is no beauty without some strangeness

All suffering originates from craving, from attachment, from desire.

The believer is happy. The doubter is wise.

All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.

Years of love have been forgot, In the hatred of a minute.

And so, being young and dipt in folly, I fell in love with melancholy.

I remained too much inside my head and ended up losing my mind.

They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.

He wasn't an especially charismatic or commanding individual, but what he lacked in personality he emphatically made up for in diligence.

Evil always wins through the strength of its splendid dupes; and there has in all ages been a disastrous alliance between abnormal innocence and abnormal sin.

The great things you intend to do some time must have a beginning if they are ever to be done, so begin something worthwhile today.

Criticism starts - it has to start - with a real passion for reading. It can come in adolescence, even in your twenties, but you must fall in love with poems.

That's what we should do, Hazel Grace: We should team up and be this disabled vigilante duo roaring through the world, righting wrongs, defending the weak, protecting the endangered.

There’s a greatness in not caring what people think

I'm Irish but I design something that is quintessentially English and I love hats.

Your diamonds are not in far distant mountains or in yonder seas; they are in your own backyard, if you but dig for them.

I enjoy baseball more than anything and would like to be involved with it forever, but the reality is your survival is determined by how well you compete, not by your fondness for the game.

Any woman who counts on her face is a fool.