From the most insignificant of actions can come the most serious of consequences.

Sometimes all it takes, to crack a problem, is a new perspective.

I may not have been sure about what really did interest me, but I was absolutely sure about what didn't.

Once people think they know who you are, changing their perception is all but impossible. Humans adore labels and will cling to them in the face of almost anything.

Listen to people from your heart, as if your life depended on it, and you will find that in turn people will listen to you with all of theirs.

The impossible often has a kind of integrity to it which the merely improbable lacks.

Forever is composed of nows.

It’s so hard to communicate because there are so many moving parts. There’s presentation and there’s interpretationand they’re so dependent on each other it makes things very difficult.

A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities.

One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.

One benefit of Summer was that each day we had more light to read by.

Regret is a concept I despise; it means we don't assume what we lived.

Being with you and not being with you is the only way I have to measure time.

Love is like a brick. You can build a house, or you can sink a dead body.

Alice had got so much into the way of expecting nothing but out-of-the-way things to happen, that it seemed quite dull and stupid for life to go on in the common way.

The single biggest act of bravery or madness anyone can do is the act of change.

Yo creo que hay cosas que hemos perdido para siempre. De hecho, creo que somos más las cosas que hemos perdido que las que tenemos.

Haven't you learned anything, not even with the approach of death? Stop thinking all the time that you're in the way, that you're bothering the person next to you. If people don't like it, they can complain. And if they don't have the courage to complain, that's their problem

Insanity is everyone expecting you not to fall apart when you find out everything you believed in was a lie.

One can accomplish something only so long as one cannot accomplish everything.

For the world seems never to offer anything worthwhile without also providing a dreadful opposite.

The goal of the values assessment is not the selection of model human beings, but of model citizens. This means the test should favour homogeneity, not atypical attitudes, no matter how commendable they may be.

Time is what we want most,but what we use worst.

That is the problem with ignorance. You can never truly know the extent of what you are ignorant about.

Que dos contrarios pueden darse al mismo tiempo es algo que se tarda en aprender pero que desata muchos nudos cuando se hace.

Human beings have a remarkable ability to accept the abnormal and make it normal.

Summertime is always the best of what might be.

Reality is frequently inaccurate.

The impossible did not bother him unduly. If it could not possibly be done, then obviously it had been done impossibly. The question was how?

Hell is the absence of the people you long for.

Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout with some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand.

Because he had no place he could stay in without getting tired of it and because there was nowhere to go but everywhere, keep rolling under the stars.

There was nowhere to go but everywhere, so just keep on rolling under the stars.

I don't care about whose DNA has recombined with whose. When everything goes to hell, the people who stand by you without flinching--they are your family.

Les livres sont comme la vie, Marcus. Ils ne se terminent jamais vraiment.

So plant your own gardens and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.

I know who I WAS when I got up this morning, but I think I must have been changed several times since then.

When I use a word,’ Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, ‘it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.’’The question is,’ said Alice, ‘whether you can make words mean so many different things.’’The question is,’ said Humpty Dumpty, ‘which is to be master — that’s all.

You don’t have to be an academic. You don’t have to be anything. Don’t force it. Feel your way, and don’t stop feeling your way until something fits. Maybe nothing will. Maybe you are a road, not a destination. That is fine. Be a road. But make sure it’s one with something to look at out of the window.

Siempre he pensado que los que dicen «te quiero mucho», en realidad te quieren poco, o tal vez añaden el «mucho», que en este caso significa «poco», por timidez o por miedo a la contundencia de «te quiero», que es la única manera verdadera de decir «te quiero». El «mucho» hace que el «te quiero» se convierta en algo apto para todos los públicos, cuando, en realidad, casi nunca lo es. «Te quiero», las palabras mágicas que te pueden convertir en un perro, en un dios, en un chiflado, en una sombra.

Collective madness is called sanity.

Humans. For the most part, you are dull and blundering. But occasionally, you can be remarkably bright creatures.

Gaia listened carefully to this wise counsel and - as we all do, whether mortal or immortal - ignored it.

If a thing can be said in ten words, I may be relied upon to take a hundred to say it. I ought to apologize for that. I ought to prune, pare and extirpate excess growth, but I will not. I like words—strike that, I love words—and while I am fond of the condensed and economical use of them in poetry, in song lyrics, in Twitter, in good journalism and smart advertising, I love the luxuriant profusion and mad scatter of them too.

Time is a drug. Too much of it kills you.

Humanity is overrated

Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.

You keep asking why your work is not enough, and I don’t know how to answer that, because it is enough to exist in the world and marvel at it. You don’t need to justify that, or earn it. You are allowed to just live.

It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade.

I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.

I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that I don't know the answer

They spend all their lives waiting for their lives to begin.

All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.

The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes “Awww!"

I don't understand people who say they need more "Me Time." What other time is there? Do these people spend part of their day in someone else's body?

A good book, Marcus, it's a book we regret finishing.

I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities I have visited.

I say, you do have a heart!" "Sometimes," he replied, "when I have the time.

I can't explain myself, I'm afraid, sir,' said Alice, 'Because I'm not myself you see.

If you aim to be something you are not, you will always fail. Aim to be you. Aim to look and act and think like you. Aim to be the truest version of you. Embrace that you-ness. Endorse it. Love it. Work hard at it. And don't give a second thought when people mock it or ridicule it. Most gossip is envy in disguise.

Advice for a human. 86. To like something is to insult it. Love it or hate it. Be passionate. As civilisation advances, so does indifference. It is a disease. Immunize yourself with art. And love.

Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up.

I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.

Why can humans not use their millions of words to simply tell one another what they desire?

When lust descends, discretion, common sense and wisdom fly off and what may seem cunning concealment to one in the grip of passion looks like transparently clumsy idiocy to everyone else.

When faced with a choice, humans almost invariably seek a no-action, no-change option, even when one of the presented alternatives is quantifiably and logically more advantageous.

We are here and it is now. The way I see it is, after that, everything tends towards guesswork.