“We dream to give ourselves hope. To stop dreaming - well, that’s like saying you can never change your fate.”

“If pain must come, may it come quickly. Because I have a life to live, and I need to live it in the best way possible. If he has to make a choice, may he make it now. Then I...

“Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves,...

“I may die young, but at least I'll die smart.”

“The only calibration that counts is how much heart people invest, how much they ignore their fears of being hurt or caught out or humiliated. And the only thing people regret is...

“To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man's life.”

“Becoming fearless isn't the point. That's impossible. It's learning how to control your fear, and how to be free from it.”

“I don't believe in the kind of magic in my books. But I do believe something very magical can happen when you read a good book.”

“I do not trust people who don't love themselves and yet tell me, 'I love you.' There is an African saying which is: Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt.”

“Strength is the capacity to break a Hershey bar into four pieces with your bare hands - and then eat just one of the pieces.”

“I have hated words and I have loved them, and I hope I have made them right.”

“They say when you are missing someone that they are probably feeling the same, but I don't think it's possible for you to miss me as much as I'm missing you right now”

“I'm on Aslan's side even if there isn't any Aslan to lead it. I'm going to live as like a Narnian as I can even if there isn't any Narnia.”

“I have nothing to declare except my genius.”

“I will not say, do not weep, for not all tears are an evil.”

“We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once.”

“You will lose what you value most, so treasure it while you can.”

“Perhaps it is our imperfections that make us so perfect for one another!”

“Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke,...

“Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.”