"Every book, every volume you see here, has a soul. The soul of the person who wrote it and of those who read it and lived and dreamed with it. Every time a book changes hands, every time someone runs his eyes down its pages, its spirit grows and strengthens."

"Trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit."

"Tears are words that need to be written."

"The brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. Because the brick walls are there to stop the people who don’t want it badly enough. They’re there to stop the other people."

"I'd rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not."

"Great heroes need great sorrows and burdens, or half their greatness goes unnoticed. It is all part of the fairy tale."

"My concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right."

"It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog."

"I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in."

"In the endthese things matter most:How well did you love?How fully did you live?How deeply did you let go?"

"When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world."

"Change will not come if we wait for some other person, or if we wait for some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek."

"What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?"

"Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days."

"The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or touched, they are felt with the heart."

"Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see."

"Go on with what your heart tells you, or you will lose all."

"There must be those among whom we can sit down and weep and still be counted as warriors."

"The only way that we can live, is if we grow. The only way that we can grow is if we change. The only way that we can change is if we learn. The only way we can learn is if we are exposed. And the only way that we can become exposed is if we throw ourselves out into the open. Do it. Throw yourself."

"She seems so cool, so focused, so quiet, yet her eyes remain fixed upon the horizon. You think you know all there is to know about her immediately upon meeting her, but everything you think you know is wrong. Passion flows through her like a river of blood. She only looked away for a moment, and the mask slipped, and you fell. All your tomorrows start here."

"If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito."

"I meant what I said and I said what I meant. An elephant's faithful one-hundred percent!"