“Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.”
“Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art.”
“Every human life is worth the same, and worth saving.”
“Every single person has at least one secret that would break your heart. If we could just remember this, I think there would be a lot more compassion and tolerance in the world.”
“I admire those who do good and expect nothing in return.”
“I am somehow less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.”
“If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. If they don't, they never were.”
“If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.”
“Let everything happen to you: Beauty and terror. Just keep going. No feeling is final.”
“Life is for the living. Death is for the dead. Let life be like music. And death a note unsaid.”
“Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.”
“Of all the words of mice and men, the saddest are, "It might have been."”
“Once glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time.”
“Optimism is a strategy for making a better future. Because unless you believe that the future can be better, you are unlikely to step up and take responsibility for making it so.”
“Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.”
“Summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.”
“The science of today is the technology of tomorrow.”
“The stuff dreams are made of.”
“There is strange comfort in knowing that no matter what happens today, the sun will rise again tomorrow.”
“Travel far enough, you meet yourself.”
“What day is it? "It's today." squeaked Piglet. "My favorite day," said Pooh.”
“When you have spent long years in the dark, there is joy in seeing the light and pleasure, above all, in the ordinary.”