“Whatever it is you’re scared of doing, Do it.”

Picking five favorite books is like picking the five body parts you’d most like not to lose.

Because,’ she said, ‘when you’re scared but you still do it anyway, that’s brave.

There are so many fragile things, after all. People break so easily, and so do dreams and hearts.

It’s not hard to own something. Or everything. You just have to know that it’s yours, and then be willing to let it go.

We often confuse what we wish for with what is.

I can believe things that are true and things that aren’t true and I can believe things where nobody knows if they’re true or not.

I went away in my head, into a book. That was where I went whenever real life was too hard or too inflexible.

Most books on witchcraft will tell you that witches work naked. This is because most books on witchcraft were written by men.

Google can bring you back 100,000 answers. A librarian can bring you back the right one.

I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else.

All your questions can be answered if that is what you want. But once you learn your answers, you can never unlearn them.

If you dare nothing, then when the day is over, nothing is all you will have gained.

Anyone who believes what a cat tells him deserves all he gets.

But how can you walk away from something and still come back to it?

I do not miss childhood, but I miss the way I took pleasure in small things, even as greater things crumbled.

Books make great gifts because they have whole worlds inside of them. And it’s much cheaper to buy somebody a book than it is to buy them the whole world!

Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.

Mistakes are the portals of discovery.

Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honored by posterity because he was the last to discover America.

Knowing what you can not do is more important than knowing what you can do. In fact, that’s good taste.

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.

And now that you don’t have to be perfect, you can be good.

Try your best to treat others as you would wish to be treated yourself, and you will find that this is the shortest way to benevolence.

If you want to be rich, simply serve more people.