You don't pass or fail at being a person, dear.

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.

The empowered woman is powerful beyond measure and beautiful beyond description.

The feet of the Christian need to tread the narrow path that the Savior trod, keeping in step with Him.

Love doesn't grow on the trees like apples in Eden - it's something you have to make and you must use your imagination to make it too just like anything else. It's all work work.

The insolence of authority is endeavoring to substitute money for ideas.

Sometimes my mother had difficulty communicating with me about certain topics.

Talk less-you will automatically learn more, hear more, see more-and make fewer blunders.

I kind of think that he [Prince] was pleased because he allowed [When Doves Cry] to be done.

I like the effect drink has on me. What's the point of staying sober?

I refuse to be in this world by myself. I want an open commitment from the rest of the people.

Mysticism joins and unites; reason divides and separates. People crave belonging more than understanding. Hence the prominent role of mysticism, and the limited role of reason in human affairs.