“It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him the words, "And this too, shall pass away." How much it expresses! How chastening in the hour of pride! How consoling in the depths of affliction!” 

“You cannot build character and courage by taking away people's initiative and independence” 

“Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves, and, under a just God cannot retain it.” 

“Take all that you can of this book upon reason, and the balance on faith, and you will live and die a happier man. (When a skeptic expressed surprise to see him reading a Bible)” 

“Let no feeling of discouragement prey

“Determine that the thing can and shall be done and then... find the way.” 

“Republicans are for both the man and the dollar, but in case of conflict the man before the dollar.” 

“Those who write clearly have readers, those who write obscurely have commentators.” 

“My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.” 

“Our safety, our liberty, depends upon preserving the Constitution of the United States as our fathers made it inviolate. The people of the United States are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution, but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.” 

“Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties.” 

“The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, we must think anew and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country.” 

“We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.” 

“Commitment is what transforms a promise into reality.” 

“Let us have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.” 

“This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can excersize their Constitutional right of amending it, or their revolutionary right to dismember it or overthrow it.” 

“in times like the present, men should utter nothing for which they would not willingly be responsible through time and eternity.” 

“A capacity, and taste, for reading, gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others. It is the key, or one of the keys, to the already solved problems. And not only so. It gives a relish, and facility, for successfully pursuing the [yet] unsolved ones.” 

"I had a lot of friends in high school, but I was never the wild party girl. Never have been, never plan to be!"

"I had a lot of friends in high school, but I was never the wild party girl. Never have been, never plan to be!"

"I can't believe we're being paid to live in New York."

"The Green Lantern is a unique superhero because it's not that he's super that is his focus; it's that he's a man. He's very human. That's his greatest strength and his greatest weakness."

"Forget the fake syrupy stuff. Melt down a bar of chocolate, mix it into some warmed up whipping cream, and put it on top of ice cream. Add some sprinkles, and you've got a delicious treat."

"You know that old saying, 'A way to a man's heart is through his stomach' - that's me."

"Emma Stone, I think, always looks beautiful."

"I've never gone on a date... If I've ever had a man in my life, it's because I know him well, and he really means something to me."

"My dad actually makes the best cookies. My mum is great baker, too, but doesn't share them - it's tantalising! Luckily for me though, my dad shares his!"

"Family is at the heart of everything I do."

“War is what happens when language fails.”

“I would like to be the air that inhabits you for a moment only. I would like to be that unnoticed and that necessary.”

“A word after a word after a word is power.”

“Don't let the bastards grind you down.”

“Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them.”

“Another belief of mine: that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.”

“In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.”

“Love blurs your vision; but after it recedes, you can see more clearly than ever. It's like the tide going out, revealing whatever's been thrown away and sunk: broken bottles, old gloves, rusting pop cans, nibbled fishbodies, bones. This is the kind of thing you see if you sit in the darkness with open eyes, not knowing the future.”

“Ignoring isn’t the same as ignorance, you have to work at it.”

“I don't want to see anyone. I lie in the bedroom with the curtains drawn and nothingness washing over me like a sluggish wave. Whatever is happening to me is my own fault. I have done something wrong, something so huge I can't even see it, something that's drowning me. I am inadequate and stupid, without worth. I might as well be dead.”

“But who can remember pain, once it’s over? All that remains of it is a shadow, not in the mind even, in the flesh. Pain marks you, but too deep to see. Out of sight, out of mind.”

“Better never means better for everyone... It always means worse, for some.”

We were the people who were not in the papers. We lived in the blank white spaces at the edges of print. It gave us more freedom. We lived in the gaps between the stories.”

“If you knew what was going to happen, if you knew everything that was going to happen next—if you knew in advance the consequences of your own actions—you'd be doomed. You'd be ruined as God. You'd be a stone. You'd never eat or drink or laugh or get out of bed in the morning. You'd never love anyone, ever again. You'd never dare to.”

“Longed for him. Got him. Shit.”

“I read for pleasure and that is the moment I learn the most.”

“Water does not resist. Water flows. When you plunge your hand into it, all you feel is a caress. Water is not a solid wall, it will not stop you. But water always goes where it wants to go, and nothing in the end can stand against it. Water is patient. Dripping water wears away a stone. Remember that, my child. Remember you are half water. If you can't go through an obstacle, go around it. Water does.”

“The only way you can write the truth is to assume that what you set down will never be read. Not by any other person, and not even by yourself at some later date. Otherwise you begin excusing yourself. You must see the writing as emerging like a long scroll of ink from the index finger of your right hand; you must see your left hand erasing it.”

“When we think of the past it's the beautiful things we pick out. We want to believe it was all like that.”

“Perhaps I write for no one. Perhaps for the same person children are writing for when they scrawl their names in the snow.”

“Stupidity is the same as evil if you judge by the results.”

“You can only be jealous of someone who has something you think you ought to have yourself.”