Words worth keeping

But until a person can say deeply and honestly, "I am what I am today because of the choices I made yesterday," that person cannot say, "I choose otherwise.

I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I'll go to it laughing.

Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?

A short story is a different thing altogether – a short story is like a quick kiss in the dark from a stranger.

To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.

There are perhaps many causes worth dying for, but to me, certainly, there are none worth killing for.

Don't let the muggles get you down.

He allowed himself to be swayed by his conviction that human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but that life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves.

No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness.

The mountains are calling and I must go.

My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.

Five exclamation marks, the sure sign of an insane mind.

She was a genius of sadness, immersing herself in it, separating its numerous strands, appreciating its subtle nuances. She was a prism through which sadness could be divided into its infinite spectrum.

There is no such thing as a "broken family." Family is family, and is not determined by marriage certificates, divorce papers, and adoption documents. Families are made in the heart. The only time family becomes null is when those ties in the heart are cut. If you cut those ties, those people are not your family. If you make those ties, those people are your family. And if you hate those ties, those people will still be your family because whatever you hate will always be with you.

You're something between a dream and a miracle.