Words worth keeping

And I thought about how many people have loved those songs. And how many people got through a lot of bad times because of those songs. And how many people enjoyed good times with those songs. And how much those songs really mean. I think it would be great to have written one of those songs. I bet if I wrote one of them, I would be very proud. I hope the people who wrote those songs are happy. I hope they feel it's enough. I really do because they've made me happy. And I'm only one person.

One can never have enough socks," said Dumbledore. "Another Christmas has come and gone and I didn't get a single pair. People will insist on giving me books.

I nodded, looking at Rachel with respect. "You hit the Lord of the Titans in the eye with a blue plastic hairbrush.

you can, you should, and if you’re brave enough to start, you will.

I came from a real tough neighborhood. Once a guy pulled a knife on me. I knew he wasn't a professional, the knife had butter on it.

Some people say, “Never let them see you cry.� I say, if you’re so mad you could just cry, then cry. It terrifies everyone.

Biology gives you a brain. Life turns it into a mind.

The heart is an arrow. It demands aim to land true.

If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain how he is. But if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.

Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.

If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, will answer you: I am here to live out loud.

Though she be but little, she is fierce!

Remember to always be yourself. Unless you suck.

I could not tell you if I loved you the first moment I saw you, or if it was the second or third or fourth. But I remember the first moment I looked at you walking toward me and realized that somehow the rest of the world seemed to vanish when I was with you.

When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.