You can find magic wherever you look. Sit back and relax, all you need is a book.

One step at a time is all it takes to get you there.

Things never happen the same way twice.

What draws people to be friends is that they see the same truth. They share it.

Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.

You can’t know, you can only believe – or not.

Nothing you have not given away will ever really be yours.

The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.

Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.

Love is something more stern and splendid than mere kindness.

Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person’s ultimate good as far as it can be obtained.

The strength of a family, like the strength of an army, is in its loyalty to each other.

Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: ‘What! You too? I thought I was the only one.’

The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.

We turn not older with years but newer every day.

Goodness can be found sometimes in the middle of hell.

Our scars are the brightest parts of us.

Congratulations!
Today is your day.
You’re off to Great Places!
You’re off and away!

To love one another just may be the fight of our lives.

Please.
Do not ask us who we are.
The hardest part of grief
Is giving it a name.

If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.

Life is too short, or too long, for me to allow myself the luxury of living it so badly.

Life is short. Kiss slowly, laugh insanely, love truly and forgive quickly.

Dogs and angels are not very far apart.

Humor is mankind’s greatest blessing.

Today is gone. Today was fun.
Tomorrow is another one.
Every day,
from here to there,
funny things are everywhere.

Take every chance, drop every fear.

In this short Life that only lasts an hour
How much – how little – is within our power.

The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.

Jealous persons are always in search of imaginary slights, which they magnify into crimes.

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.

Somehow you’ll escape all that waiting and staying. You’ll find the bright places where Boom Bands are playing.

I am out with lanterns, looking for myself.

What’s really funny about being National Youth Poet Laureate is that not everyone even knows it exists.

You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.

Optimist: day dreamer more elegantly spelled.

Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident.

Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it.

When in doubt tell the truth.

The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.

Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.

Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

The heart wants what it wants – or else it does not care.

Oh, what a day. I will make it a holiday.

I know it is wet and the sun is not sunny, but we can have lots of good fun that is funny.

Sometimes crazy just isn’t enough.

There are so many THINKS that a thinker can think!

Only you can control your future.

Read. Travel. Read. Ask. Read. Learn. Read. Connect. Read.

Be yourself and the people that don’t mind are the people that matter.

Because when you stop and look around, this life is pretty amazing.

Don’t conform for the sake of pleasing others. Mold yourself into the person that you want to be.

Sometimes you will never know the value of something, until it becomes a memory.

Let’ em learn or let’ em die.

Always remember that
What happened to us
Happened through us.

Poetry and language are often at the heartbeat of movements for change.

The oration of poetry, I consider to be its own art form and tradition.

I was writing since I can remember – I just didn’t know it was poetry yet, or that writing could be a career.

Poetry has never been the language of barriers, it’s always been the language of bridges.

The great responsibility I feel is to get people to put that power and that hope in themselves.

We might not be fully sure of all that we are. & yet we have endured all that we were.

Change is made of choices, & choices are made of character.

In this truth, in this faith, we trust.
For while we have our eyes on the future,
History has its eyes on us.

That it will never come again is what makes life sweet.

Parting is all we know of heaven, and all we need of hell.

Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath.

A word is dead when it is said, some say. I say it just begins to live that day.

To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.

Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.

The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.

Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality.

On and on you will hike, And I know you’ll hike far and face up to your problems whatever they are.

Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.

Sail through the good days, and on bad days pick a spot of blue sky to steer toward.

She’s mad, but she’s magic. There’s no lie in her fire.

People lack originality.

The whole world is caught in her glance and at last the universe is magnificent.

Love it or leave it.

Justice is everywhere and it’s working.

People don’t need love. What they need is success in one form or another. It can be love but it needn’t be.

The cat is the beautiful devil.

Not to ask the obvious question, but why Alaska?

And I wrote my way out of the labyrinth.

This mystery can’t be solved. We have to live with that for the rest of our lives.

The pigs can’t stop the fox; I’m too quick. I can rhyme while I run; I’m that slick.

It’s not imaginary. It’s my great perhaps.

I wondered whether I could find a Great Perhaps here at all or whether I had made a grand miscalculation.

The poem has some value, believe me. It keeps you from going totally mad.

To do a dull thing with style – now that’s what I call art.

If life gives you lemons, don’t settle for simply making lemonade – make a glorious scene at a lemonade stand.

That swan is the spawn of Satan. Never get closer to it than we are now.

Sometimes you lose a battle. But mischief always wins the war.

How will we ever get out of this labyrinth of suffering?

When I look at my room, I see a girl who loves books.

My question? It has no answer.

Englishmen must have an island.