Prince William of Wales

A person who won’t read has no advantage over one who can’t read.

You have to know how to defend yourself.

That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.

2 is not equal to 3, not even for large values of 2.

Its a choice. You just have to decide that I’m not going to put my energy there. I’m going to decide to let this go. It’s your choice. You can embrace it, you can become a prisoner of bitterness and resentment anger and victim city, or you can just say ‘I’m going to live my life and be happy’.

Stars are good too. I wish I could get some to put in my hair. But I suppose I never can. You would be surprised to find how far off they are, for they do not look it. When they first showed last night I tried to knock some down with a pole, but it didn’t reach, which astonished me. Then I tried clods till I was all tired out, but I never got one. I did make some close shots, for I saw the black blot of the clod sail right into thee midst of the golden clusters forty or fifty times, just barely missing them, and if I could’ve held out a little longer, maybe I could’ve got one.

She wears her beauty as the sky wears the stars, infinitely deep and forever shining.

You are a function of what the whole universe is doing in the same way that a wave is a function of what the whole ocean is doing.

If there’s only one answer, then this must not be a very interesting topic.

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

Some people give time, some money, some their skills and connections, some literally give their life’s blood. But everyone has something to give.

I remember thinking during those times that I wanted to write in a way where there are no rules.

The world is more malleable than you think and it’s waiting for you to hammer it into shape.

In the dime stores and bus stations, people talk of situations, read books, repeat quotations, draw conclusions on the wall.

The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless.