💬 Quotes

"You are a young man. You have a fire in you that will either warm the world or burn you to a cinder. Try to choose the former."

"Words are pale shadows of forgotten names. As names have power, words have power. Words can light fires in the minds of men. Words can wring tears from the hardest hearts."

"I have, of course, learned that the truth is often a poor substitute for what people want to believe."

"If you are going to be the Messiah, you might as well have a sense of humor about it."

"To be human is to be flawed, and it is in the acceptance of those flaws that we find our grace."

"It is not the miracles that make a man remembered; it is the kindness he shows when he has no reason to be kind."

"You can't save everyone, Biff. But you can try to be the person who makes the world a little less dark for someone else."

"I was a good boy, but I was not a holy boy. I was a boy who liked to eat, and sleep, and wonder why the stars didn't fall out of the sky."

"Love is the only thing that doesn't obey the laws of physics. It expands when you give it away, and it's the only thing that remains when everything else is gone."

"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived."

"Most of the luxuries, and many of the so-called comforts of life, are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind."

"If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away."

"The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation."

"I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand; instead of a million count half a dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumb-nail."

"Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations."

"Are you there God? It’s me, Margaret. I’ve never spoken to you before, but I’d like to start now."

"I will think about religion... but I won't be like you, Mom, or like Dad. I'll be me."

"We must, we must, we must increase our bust."

"I don't think you're fair, God. If you're going to let me grow, you should let me grow like everyone else."

"You can't just pick the parts of a religion you like and leave the rest behind."