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

Everybody has a secret world inside of them. I mean everybody. All of the people in the whole world, I mean everybody – no matter how dull and boring they are on the outside.

Adults follow paths. Children explore.

People want to forget the impossible. It makes their world safer.

People think dreams aren’t real just because they aren’t made of matter, of particles. Dreams are real. But they are made of viewpoints, of images, of memories and puns and lost hopes.

You have a good heart. Sometimes that’s enough to see you safe wherever you go. But mostly, it’s not.

I believe that all men are just overgrown boys with deep problems communicating.

If you want to imagine the future, imagine a boy and his dog and his friends. And a summer that never ends.

And did I pass?” The face of the old woman on my right was unreadable in the gathering dusk. On my left, the younger woman said, “You don’t pass or fail at being a person, dear.

He had noticed that events were cowards: they didn’t occur singly, but instead they would run in packs and leap out at him all at once.

Life is a disease: sexually transmitted, and invariably fatal.

Sometimes we can choose the paths we follow. Sometimes our choices are made for us. And sometimes we have no choice at all.

Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn’t it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up.

You’re always you, and that doesn’t change, and you’re always changing, and there’s nothing you can do about it.

We owe it to each other to tell stories.

Ideas are more difficult to kill than people, but they can be killed, in the end.

Words save our lives, sometimes.

Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.

Business is a fight, a continual struggle, just as life is.

Your habits will determine your quality of life.

The greatest trap in our life is not success, popularity or power, but self-rejection.

Right now is the time for you to visualize and create your future. Make it as healthy and bright and joyful as you can. It’s your life, and you’re going to live it.

The simple fact that you care, that you want to do your best, that you strive to enjoy life and love, this makes you so much more than enough.

I think that God kind of put me in the place in my life to not be quiet about it, not be quiet about Him, but to reach people and to inspire people.

The point of your life is to point to Him. Whatever you are doing, God wants to be glorified, because this whole thing is His.