"Just because you can doesn't mean you should."

"The real heroes anyway aren't the people doing things; the real heroes are the people NOTICING things, paying attention."

"No matter how your heart is grieving, if you keep on believing, the dreams that you wish will come true."

"Two roads diverged in a wood, and I -I took the one less traveled by,And that has made all the difference."

"We're so self-important. So arrogant. Everybody's going to save something now. Save the trees, save the bees, save the whales, save the snails. And the supreme arrogance? Save the planet! Are these people kidding? Save the planet? We don't even know how to take care of ourselves; we haven't learned how to care for one another. We're gonna save the fuckin' planet? . . . And, by the way, there's nothing wrong with the planet in the first place. The planet is fine. The people are fucked! Compared with the people, the planet is doin' great. It's been here over four billion years . . . The planet isn't goin' anywhere, folks. We are! We're goin' away. Pack your shit, we're goin' away. And we won't leave much of a trace. Thank God for that. Nothing left. Maybe a little Styrofoam. The planet will be here, and we'll be gone. Another failed mutation; another closed-end biological mistake."

"there is a place in the heart thatwill never be filleda spaceand even during thebest momentsandthe greatest timestimeswe will know itwe will know itmore thaneverthere is a place in the heart thatwill never be filledandwe will waitandwaitin that space."

"It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion"

"I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him."

"Stepping onto a brand-new path is difficult, but not more difficult than remaining in a situation, which is not nurturing to the whole woman."

"No matter how plain a woman may be, if truth and honesty are written across her face, she will be beautiful."

"All thinking men are atheists."

"The question is not what you look at, but what you see."

"We never know the quality of someone else's life, though we seldom resist the temptation to assume and pass judgement."

"I just want you to know that you’re very special… and the only reason I’m telling you is that I don’t know if anyone else ever has."

"There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt. Doubt separates people. It is a poison that disintegrates friendships and breaks up pleasant relations. It is a thorn that irritates and hurts"

"Jane, be still; don't struggle so like a wild, frantic bird, that is rending its own plumage in its desperation.""I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being, with an independent will; which I now exert to leave you."

"If you want to be happy, be."

"Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way."

"If you don't go after what you want, you'll never have it. If you don't ask, the answer is always no. If you don't step forward, you're always in the same place."

"I am a part of all that I have met."

"The unhappiest people in this world, are those who care the most about what other people think."

"Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you."