We live in an age of mediocrity.

Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.

I think your whole life shows in your face and you should be proud of that.

I am not a has-been. I am a will-be.

Life is amazing, life is odd. Life is not what you expected it to be. Things happen... Growing up takes longer than you think.

You don't always win your battles, but it's good to know you fought.

Standing still is the fastest way of moving backwards in a rapidly changing world.

There are guys who want to screw around all the time, which interests me not at all. God knows we've done that, been there, and we don't want to do that any more.

Legends are all to do with the past and nothing to do with the present.

Growing up takes longer than you think.

Stardom isn't a profession, it's an accident.

Displays of weapons will not be able to bring peace, only displays of love and understanding can do that.

Magic lies in the little things

It will be readily admitted, that a degree conferred by an university, ought to be a pledge to the public that he who holds it possesses a certain quantity of knowledge.

If you wish to be popular in society consent to be taught many things you already know.

Seriously, I think what all the puzzling over parenthood I had to do to write [a novel] ROOM taught me is that children can thrive in a remarkable range of situations.

I quit school in ninth grade, even though I was good at the studies. I knew I didn't need school for what I wanted.

Humility like darkness reveals the heavenly lights.

A time will however come (as I believe) when physiology will invade and destroy mathematical physics, as the latter has destroyed geometry.

Being happy enables you to be free from domination by the outside world.

Great men are always exceptional men; and greatness itself is but comparative. Indeed, the range of most men in life is so limited that very few have the opportunity of being great.