When I was in elementary school, I used to write letters to myself. I'd write letters and go 'Dear Kristen-at-16-years-old, happy birthday. I hope you're doing something.'

Color fills her cheeks, and I think it again: that Johanna Reyes might still be beautiful. Except now I think that she isn't just beautiful in spite of the scar, she's somehow beautiful with it, like Lynn with her buzzed hair, like Tobias with the memories of his father's cruelty that he wears like armor, like my mother in her plain gray clothing.

Veronica Roth

A beautiful bright blue sky; up above so high; how happy i am; to feel fully satisfied.

Santosh Kalwar

Govern a family as you would cook a small fish -- very gently.

Chinese Proverb

No one has ever said it, but how painfully true it is that the poor have us always with them.

Hector Hugh Munro

I imagined the Augustus Waters analysis of that comment: If I am playing basketball in heaven, does that imply a physical location of a heaven containing physical basketballs? Who makes the basketballs in question? Are there less fortunate souls in heaven who work in a celestial basketball factory so that I can play? Or did an omnipotent God create the basketballs out of the vacuum of space? Is this heaven in some kind of unobservable universe where the laws of physics don't apply, and if so, why in the hell would I be playing basketball when I could be flying or reading or looking at beautiful people or something else I actually enjoy? It's almost as if the way you imagine my dead self says more about you than either the person I was or whatever I am now.

John Green

Humanity's greatest achievement will come when the happiness of some will no longer be the sadness of others.

Mario Stinger

I prefer the keen edge of truth to the dull comfort of lies.

Sondra Allan Carr

Some of the greatest poetry is revealing to the reader the beauty in something that was so simple you had taken it for granted.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

In science, read by preference the newest works. In literature, read the oldest. The classics are always modern.

Lord Edward Lytton

I made a French film called 'Merry Christmas' which is a very European film. It's a World War I piece.

Diane Kruger

Dad, I'm in some trouble. There's been an accident and you're going to hear all sorts of things about me from now on. Terrible things.

Edward Kennedy

How terribly hard and almost impossible it is to tell the truth. More than anything else, the artist in us prevents us from telling aught as it really happened. We deal with the truth as the cook deals with meat and vegetables.

Eric Hoffer