“The things you do for yourself are gone when you are gone, but the things you do for others remain as your legacy.”

“It isn’t what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about it.”

“Sometimes our light goes out, but is blown again into instant flame by an encounter with another human being.”

“Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”

“I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life’s a bitch. You’ve got to go out and kick ass.”

“When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.”

“Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark in the hopeless swamps of the not-quite, the not-yet, and the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration for the life you deserved and have never been able to reach. The world you desire can be won. It exists.. it is real.. it is possible.. it’s yours.”

“If you’re reading this…Congratulations, you’re alive.If that’s not something to smile about,then I don’t know what is.”

“If my life is going to mean anything, I have to live it myself.”

“True love is not so much a matter of romance as it is a matter of anxious concern for the well-being of one’s companion.”

“Sometimes God allows what he hates to accomplish what he loves.”

“Hearts are breakable,” Isabelle said. “And I think even when you heal, you’re never what you were before”.”

“Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.”

“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.”

“May you live every day of your life.”