“The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.”

“Lost love is still love. It takes a different form, that's all. You can't see their smile or bring them food or tousle their hair or move them around a dance floor. But when...

“To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation.”

“We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.”

“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.”