"no matter how ugly the world gets or how stupid it shows me it is, I always have faith"

"Don't limit a child to your own learning, for she was born in another time."

"Written words can also sing."

"If you really want to do something, you'll find a way. If you don't, you'll find an excuse."

"What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly."

"Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death."

"The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough."

"You can't outwit fate by standing on the sidelines placing little sidebets about the outcome of life. either you wade in and risk everything you have to play the game or you don't play at all. and if u don't play u can't win."

"Be soft. Do not let the world make you hard. Do not let the pain make you hate. Do not let the bitterness steal your sweetness. Take pride that even though the rest of the world may disagree, you still believe it to be a beautiful place"

"We should not judge people by their peak of excellence"

"Be silent and safe — silence never betrays you; Be true to your word and your work and your friend; Put least trust in him who is foremost to praise you,Nor judge of a road till it draw to the end."

"The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience."

"I think the act of reading imbues the reader with a sensitivity toward the outside world that people who don't read can sometimes lack. I know it seems like a contradiction in terms; after all reading is such a solitary, internalizing act that it appears to represent a disengagement from day-to-day life. But reading, and particularly the reading of fiction, encourages us to view the world in new and challenging ways...It allows us to inhabit the consciousness of another which is a precursor to empathy, and empathy is, for me, one of the marks of a decent human being."

"You can’t go back and make a new start, but you can start right now and make a brand new ending."

"Anything is possible. Anything can be."

"If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea."

"Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder. Help someone's soul heal. Walk out of your house like a shepherd."

"Only the gentle are ever really strong."

"Indeed, learning to write may be part of learning to read. For all I know, writing comes out of a superior devotion to reading."

"I am who I am; no more, no less."

"Awake, arise or be for ever fall’n."

"If you can't you must, and if you must you can."