Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world...would do this, it would change the earth.

You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.

We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.

Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Do not bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.

The past is never dead. It's not even past.

Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.

In writing, you must kill all your darlings.

The saddest thing about love, Joe, is that not only the love cannot last forever, but even the heartbreak is soon forgotten.

Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.