"When those you love die, the best you can do is honor their spirit for as long as you live. You make a commitment that you're going to take whatever lesson that person or animal was trying to teach you, and you make it true in your own life... it's a positive way to keep their spirit alive in the world, by keeping it alive in yourself."

"Differences are not intended to separate, to alienate. We are different precisely in order to realize our need of one another."

"If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten."

"I was halfway across America, at the dividing line between the East of my youth and the West of my future."

"Dupa ce iti omori demonii, daca ai curajul sa o faci, e musai sa te intorci pe acelasi drum."

"And if you think you're alone. Put on my music. Because I'm going to be there for you."

"Plus there’s the fact,” he went on, making it clear he didn’t need me to reply anyway, “that music is a total constant. That’s why we have such a strong visceral connection to it, you know? Because a song can take you back instantly to a moment, or a place, or even a person. No matter what else has changed in you or the world, that one song stays the same, just like that moment. Which is pretty amazing, when you actually think about it."

"A book series is never truly over. The story lives on, even when the final page has been turned."

"When you grow up as a girl, the world tells you the things that you are supposed to be: emotional, loving, beautiful, wanted. And then when you are those things, the world tells you they are inferior: illogical, weak, vain, empty."

"It's daring to be curious about the unknown, to dream big dreams, to live outside prescribed boxes, to take risks, and above all, daring to investigate the way we live until we discover the deepest treasured purpose of why we are here."

"It is better to fill your head with useless knowledge than no knowledge at all."

"Champions are made from something they have deep inside of them-a desire, a dream, a vison."

"I have something that I call my Golden Rule. It goes something like this: 'Do unto others twenty-five percent better than you expect them to do unto you.' … The twenty-five percent is for error."

"Sometimes you've got to be able to listen to yourself and be okay with no one else understanding."

"Let them call me a rebel and welcome. I feel no concern from it. But should I suffer the misery of devils, were I to make a whore of my soul."

"Too many people realize at the end of their lives that they've taken for granted those who really love them."

"Be creative, be useful, be practical, be generous and finish big"

"When you're good at something, you'll tell everyone. When you're great at something, they'll tell you."

"Now, five years is nothing in a man's life except when he is very young and very old...- Wang Lung"

"Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect, whether he chooses to be so or not."

"Nothing is so much calculated to lead people to forsake sin as to take them by the hand and to watch over them in tenderness. When persons manifest the least kindness and love to me, O what pow'r it has over my mind."

"As I go clowning my sentimental way into eternity, wrestling with all my problems of estrangement and communion, sincerity and simulation, ambition and acquiescence, I shuttle between worrying whether I matter at all and whether anything else matters but me."