If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. No use being a damn fool about it.

I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?

You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived through this...

A book without words is like love without a kiss; it's empty

You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.

I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious

Life is pain, highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something

In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer

There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it

Happiness is a warm puppy.

The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.

May you live every day of your life

I am not young enough to know everything

Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears

Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night

Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one’s definition of your life; define yourself

Always do what you are afraid to do

It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything, I still...

The nicest thing for me is sleep, then at least I can dream

I cannot live without books