“I stopped explaining myself when I realized other people only understand from their level of perception.”

The magic on you is only magic and will vanish as soon as you are free, but the enchantment of error that you put on me I must wear forever in your eyes. We are not always what we seem, and hardly ever what we dream.

The whole day was like that. I wish I could do it justice as I’m writing about it. I feel like I could use all of the words that I have in my head times each and never be able to tell exactly what it was like.

Poetry doesn’t have to rhyme, it just has to touch someone where your hands couldn’t.

Love, hate, what’s the difference?

Focus is more important than intelligence.

She needed a hero, so that’s what she became.

The whole world steps aside for the man who knows where he is going.

If a girl is stupid enough to love you after you broke her heart, I guarantee you, she is the one.

Very private people have mastered the art of telling you little about themselves but doing it in such a way you think you know a lot.

You don’t demand respect, you earn it.

If serving is below you, leadership is beyond you.

Books don’t just go with you, they take you where you’ve never been.

Above all else, guard your heart for it affects everything else you do.

Never let your fears be the boundaries of your dreams.

Everything is possible for him who believes.

You are what you think. All that you are arises from your thoughts. With your thoughts you make your world.

Genius is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one, and the man of talent sees two or three, plus the ability to register that multiple perception in the material of his art.

Why should the actions of the imagination not be as real as those of perception?

There is no truth. There is only perception.

Perception is a tool that’s pointed on both ends.

Great literature should do some good to the reader: must quicken his perception though dull, and sharpen his discrimination though blunt, and mellow the rawness of his personal opinions.

The brain is the highest of the organs in position, and it is protected by the vault of the head; it has no flesh or blood or refuse. It is the citadel of sense-perception.

Literature expresses itself by abstractions, whereas painting, by means of drawing and colour, gives concrete shape to sensations and perceptions.

The brain is the citadel of sense perception.