"We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, handsome, talented and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be?"

"Children betrayed their parents by becoming their own people."

"Passion is a feeling that tells you: this is the right thing to do. Nothing can stand in my way. It doesn't matter what anyone else says. This feeling is so good that it cannot be ignored. I'm going to follow my bliss and act upon this glorious sensation of joy."

"I've had it with being nice, understanding, fair and hopeful. I feel like being negative all day. The chip on my shoulder could sink the QE2. I've got an attitude problem and nobody better get in my way...I'm in a bad mood and the whole stupid little world is gonna pay!"

"I want to continue being crazy; living my life the way I dream it, and not the way the other people want it to be."

"My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary."

"Life is short. If you doubt me, ask a butterfly. Their average life span is a mere five to fourteen days."

"The deepest secret is that life is not a process of discovery, but a process of creation. You are not discovering yourself, but creating yourself anew. Seek therefore, not to find out Who You Are, but seek to determine Who You Want to Be."

"If it sounds like writing, I rewrite it."

"Every time you do a good deed you shine the light a little farther into the dark. And the thing is, when you're gone that light is going to keep shining on, pushing the shadows back."

"Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships."

"When I was alive, I believed — as you do — that time was at least as real and solid as myself, and probably more so. I said 'one o'clock' as though I could see it, and 'Monday' as though I could find it on the map; and I let myself be hurried along from minute to minute, day to day, year to year, as though I were actually moving from one place to another. Like everyone else, I lived in a house bricked up with seconds and minutes, weekends and New Year's Days, and I never went outside until I died, because there was no other door. Now I know that I could have walked through the walls. (...) You can strike your own time, and start the count anywhere. When you understand that — then any time at all will be the right time for you."

"I hate you."I love you."You're a freak, you know that? Everyone says so. They always have."I'm trying not to be."

"Just because someone desires you, it does not mean that they value you.Read it over.Again.Let those words resonate in your mind."

"Free at last, Free at last, Thank God almighty we are free at last."

"I'd like to add some beauty to life," said Anne dreamily. "I don't exactly want to make people KNOW more... though I know that IS the noblest ambition... but I'd love to make them have a pleasanter time because of me... to have some little joy or happy thought that would never have existed if I hadn't been born."

"Education is teaching our children to desire the right things."

"The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are."

"People have only as much liberty as they have the intelligence to want and the courage to take."

"The best way to measure how much you've grown isn't by inches or the number of laps you can now run around the track, or even your grade point average-- though those things are important, to be sure. It's what you've done with your time, how you've chosen to spend your days, and whom you've touched this year. That, to me, is the greatest measure of success."

"I was born into Bolívar's labyrinth, and so I must believe in the hope of Rabelais' Great Perhaps."

"We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people."