“Sex is part of nature. I go along with nature.”

“Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You fight for it, strive for it, insist upon it, and sometimes even travel around the world looking for it. You have to...

“The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious - the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science.”

It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.

“If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you're mis-informed.”

“The only way to get through life is to laugh your way through it. You either have to laugh or cry. I prefer to laugh. Crying gives me a headache.”

“Literature is a textually transmitted disease, normally contracted in childhood.”

“Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.”

“Oh, I wouldn't mind, Hazel Grace. It would be a privilege to have my heart broken by you.”

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world

Indolence is sweet, and its consequences bitter.

Why did you do all this for me?" he asked. "I don't deserve it. I've never done anything for you.'<br /> You have been my friend,' replied Charlotte. 'That in...

“I don't mind making jokes, but I don't want to look like one.”

“What I say is, a town isn't a town without a bookstore. It may call itself a town, but unless it's got a bookstore it knows it's not fooling a soul.”

“Learning to ignore things is one of the great paths to inner peace.”

“If you go home with somebody, and they don't have books, don't fuck 'em!”

“You can't stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.”

“I don't know who invented high heels, but all women owe him a lot!”

“When I was a child, adults would tell me not to make things up, warning me of what would happen if I did. As far as I can tell so far, it seems to involve lots of foreign travel...

“When a man gives his opinion, he's a man. When a woman gives her opinion, she's a bitch.”