Virginia is the place, where, technologically speaking, they will burn people at the stake for possessing such things as toasters.

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.

We all have to share this world. The best way to do that is to be nice to each other.

People enjoy doing what they do best.

Kind words produce happiness. How often have we ourselves been made happy by kind words, in a manner and to an extent which we are unable to explain!

I thought writing about somebody current would be a little closer to what I'm used to doing.

Rich widows are the only secondhand goods that sell at first-class prices.

I didn't try to be something I wasn't.

Everything changes but change itself. Everything flows and nothing remains the same... You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters and yet others go flowing ever on.

When we are foolish God intervenes.

Nature will never confront you with a problem you can't solve. You already have the answer, that is why the question appears before you.

I have a beautiful wife and two beautiful children, and every day I am paid to do what I love.