Best Quotes

But luxury has never appealed to me, I like simple things, books, being alone, or with somebody who understands.

The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.

A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.

In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you.

The best index to a person’s character is how he treats people who can’t do him any good, and how he treats people who can’t fight back.

You’ve gotta dance like there’s nobody watching,Love like you’ll never be hurt,Sing like there’s nobody listening,And live like it’s heaven on earth.

You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.

Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.

Knock, And He’ll open the doorVanish, And He’ll make you shine like the sunFall, And He’ll raise you to the heavensBecome nothing, And He’ll turn you into everything.

Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.

Words are pale shadows of forgotten names. As names have power, words have power. Words can light fires in the minds of men. Words can wring tears from the hardest hearts.

It’s like everyone tells a story about themselves inside their own head. Always. All the time. That story makes you what you are. We build ourselves out of that story.