“The world was hers for the reading.”

“Grief does not change you, Hazel. It reveals you.”

“Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.”

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

“How wrong is it for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself?”

“If, then, I were asked for the most important advice I could give, that which I considered to be the most useful to the men of our century, I should simply say: in the name of...

“The best way to cheer yourself is to cheer somebody else up.”

“You don't remember what happened. What you remember becomes what happened.”

What's up?" I asked.<br /> <br /> You tell me," he said. "You were the one about ready to start making out with Adrian."<br /> <br...

“For you, a thousand times over”

“It makes you wonder. All the brilliant things we might have done with our lives if only we suspected we knew how.”

“The things you do for yourself are gone when you are gone, but the things you do for others remain as your legacy.”

“I've begun to realize that you can listen to silence and learn from it. It has a quality and a dimension all its own.”

“Not all those who wander are lost.”

“The love of learning, the sequestered nooks,<br /> And all the sweet serenity of books”

“That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you're not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.”

“Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do...

“Because this is what happens when you try to run from the past. It just doesn’t catch up, it overtakes … blotting out the future.”

“People think it must be fun to be a super genius, but they don't realize how hard it is to put up with all the idiots in the world.”

“If loving someone is putting them in a straitjacket and kicking them down a flight of stairs, then yes, I have loved a few people.”