Words worth keeping

Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are.

I know it's wrong - God, it's all kinds of wrong - but I just want to lie down with you and wake up with you, just once, just once ever in my life.

The future depends on what you do today.

Trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.

Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them.

If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character...Would you slow down? Or speed up?

The only truth is music.

Laughter is wine for the soul - laughter soft, or loud and deep, tinged through with seriousness - the hilarious declaration made by man that life is worth living.

If you never did you should. These things are fun and fun is good.

Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.

The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one.

Only a generation of readers will spawn a generation of writers.

I can't eat and I can't sleep. I'm not doing well in terms of being a functional human, you know?

You care so much you feel as though you will bleed to death with the pain of it.

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.