Words worth keeping

I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.

The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.

The marks humans leave are too often scars.

You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.

Remember, we're madly in love, so it's all right to kiss me anytime you feel like it.

A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.

To die will be an awfully big adventure.

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, 'Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?' Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.

Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.

We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.

It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.

And in that moment, I swear we were infinite.

Books are a uniquely portable magic.