Words worth keeping

My tastes are simple: I am easily satisfied with the best.

I don't want to die without any scars.

Believe in yourself. You are braver than you think, more talented than you know, and capable of more than you imagine.

Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.

If music be the food of love, play on,Give me excess of it; that surfeiting,The appetite may sicken, and so die.

Show me a hero, and I'll write you a tragedy.

It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you might be swept off to.

I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.

Angry people are not always wise.

By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.

What is an "instant" death anyway? How long is an instant? Is it one second? Ten? The pain of those seconds must have been awful as her heart burst and her lungs collapsed and there was no air and no blood to her brain and only raw panic. What the hell is instant? Nothing is instant. Instant rice takes five minutes, instant pudding an hour. I doubt that an instant of blinding pain feels particularly instantaneous.

I am not sure exactly what heaven will be like, but I know that when we die and it comes time for God to judge us, he will not ask, 'How many good things have you done in your life?' rather he will ask, 'How much love did you put into what you did?

To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you.

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.

She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain.