The world doesn't make sense until you force it to. |

The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone. |

To the dull mind all nature is leaden. To the illumined mind the whole world burns and sparkles with light. |

Our backs tell stories
no books have the spine to carry. |

Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going. |

Parting is all we know of heaven,
And all we need of hell. |

I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you. (...) I love you for the part of me that you bring out. |

You're something between a dream and a miracle. |

Tending the garden is a relaxing pastime, but it does not prepare one for the inevitable battles of life. It is easy to be calm in a serene setting.
To be calm and serene when under attack is much more difficult; therefore, I tell you that it is far better to be a warrior tending his garden rather than a gardener at war. |

Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past. |

Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it. |

If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear. |

In art and dream may you proceed with abandon. In life may you proceed with balance and stealth. |

If giving points is the only way to motivate a student to complete an assignment, perhaps we should look more closely at the assignment. |

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others. |

I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ. |

An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind. |

Be the change that you wish to see in the world. |

It's not about what it is, it's about what it can become. |

So the writer who breeds more words than he needs, is making a chore for the reader who reads. |

If someone betrays you once, it’s their fault; if they betray you twice, it’s your fault. |

We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all. |

You wouldn't worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do. |

Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you’ll be criticized anyway. |