When you die, they can make you into diamonds now. It’s scientific. That’s how I want to be remembered. I want to shine.

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.

Nothing erases the past. There is repentance, there is atonement, and there is forgiveness. That is all, but that is enough.

We live in a time when we have a communal duty to receive and broadcast love. We must set aside our repeating arguments and get a handle on our destructive depressions.pg vi

When you have nothing to say, don't.

Your inner understanding of Love - can be extended beyond all you have ever known, before.

If those whom we begin to love could know us as we were before meeting them they could perceive what they have made of us.

There is one purpose to life and one only: to bear witness to and understand as much as possible of the complexity of the world- its beauty, its mysteries, its riddles.

To insist on strength ... is not war-mongering. It is peace-mongering.

All the really good players I know, they all knew right from wrong. So many of them don't learn that at home nowadays.

No union exists between church and state, and perfect freedom of opinion is guaranteed to all sects and creeds.

A poet is a good citizen turned inside out.