If you have everything under control, you're not moving fast enough.
open me carefully
The very essence of romance is uncertainty.
I heard what you said. I’m not the silly romantic you think. I don’t want the heavens or the shooting stars. I don’t want gemstones or gold. I have those things already. I want…a steady hand. A kind soul. I want to fall asleep, and wake, knowing my heart is safe. I want to love, and be loved.
Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.
For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.
I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think
Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.
“[Dean] “My dear fellow, who will let you?” [Roark] “That’s not the point. The point is, who will stop me?”
We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.
You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.
The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.
Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.
An unexamined life is not worth living.
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So, throw off the bowlines, sail away from safe harbor, catch the trade winds in your sails.
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined.
In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.
Beauty, without expression, tires.
For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.