Words worth keeping

Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once. Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, It seems to me most strange that men should fear; Seeing that death, a necessary end, Will come when it will come.

Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.

I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks.

The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough of is love.

A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.

Stay gold, Ponyboy. Stay gold . . .� The pillow seemed to sink a little, and Johnny died.

He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking.

Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.

And when at last you find someone to whom you feel you can pour out your soul, you stop in shock at the words you utter— they are so rusty, so ugly, so meaningless and feeble from being kept in the small cramped dark inside you so long.

love the life you live.live the life you love.

It's funny how humans can wrap their mind around things and fit them into their version of reality.

The best portion of a good man's life: his little, nameless unremembered acts of kindness and love.

All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does, and that is his.

Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.

And perhaps it is the greater grief, after all, to be left on earth when another is gone.