"Our soulmate is the one who makes life come to life."

"Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years."

"Live never to be ashamed if anything you say or do is published around the world, even if what is said is not true."

"To fly as fast as thought, you must begin by knowing that you have already arrived."

"You are never given a wish without being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however."

"Happiness is the reward we get for living to the highest right we know."

"The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work."

"I gave my life to become the person I am right now. Was it worth it?"

"Learning is finding out what you already know."

"Civilization... wrecks the planet from seafloor to stratosphere."

"You are always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past."

"In order to win, you must expect to win."

"Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours."

"Jonathan is that brilliant little fire that burns within us all, that lives only for those moments when we reach perfection."

"If your happiness depends on what somebody else does, I guess you do have a problem."

"The meaning I picked, the one that changed my life: Overcome fear, behold wonder."

"To bring anything into your life, imagine that it's already there."

"Not being known doesn't stop the truth from being true."

"You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true. You may have to work for it, however."

"Ask yourself the secret of your success. Listen to your answer, and practice it."

"In the United States Christmas has become the rape of an idea."

"You don't want a million answers as much as you want a few forever questions. The questions are diamonds you hold in the light. Study a lifetime and you see different colors from the same jewel."

"The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the Master calls the butterfly."

"Don't be dismayed by good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are friends."

"If it's never our fault, we can't take responsibility for it. If we can't take responsibility for it, we'll always be its victim."

"If you will practice being fictional for a while, you will understand that fictional characters are sometimes more real than people with bodies and heartbeats."

"There are no mistakes. The events we bring upon ourselves, no matter how unpleasant, are necessary in order to learn what we need to learn; whatever steps we take, they're necessary to reach the places we've chosen to go."

"Avoid problems, and you'll never be the one who overcame them."

"Here is a test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: If you're alive, it isn't."

"Don't believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding, find out what you already know, and you'll see the way to fly."

"Bad things are not the worst things that can happen to us. Nothing is the worst thing that can happen to us!"

"It is by not always thinking of yourself, if you can manage it, that you might somehow be happy. Until you make room in your life for someone as important to you as yourself, you will always be searching and lost."

"Allow the world to live as it chooses, and allow yourself to live as you choose."

"Strong beliefs win strong men, and then make them stronger."

"Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness. Listen to it carefully."

"I want to be very close to someone I respect and admire and have somebody who feels the same way about me."

"I don't want to do business with those who don't make a profit, because they can't give the best service."

"Some choices we live not only once but a thousand times over, remembering them for the rest of our lives."

"Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but the mark of a fake messiah."

"Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness."

"Every person, all the events of your life are there because you have drawn them there. What you choose to do with them is up to you."

"Get this in mind early: We never grow up."

"In order to live free and happily you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice."

"Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't."

"Rarely do members of the same family grow up under the same roof."

"Can miles truly separate you from friends... If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there?"

"A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit."

"The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life."

"The simplest questions are the most profound. Where were you born? Where is your home? Where are you going? What are you doing? Think about these once in a while and watch your answers change."

"True love stories never have endings."