1. "'Me! Books and cleverness! There are more important things-- friendship and bravery."

2. "It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live."

3. “It seemed funny to me that the sunset she saw from her patio and the one I saw from the back steps was the same one. Maybe the two different worlds we lived in weren't so different. We saw the same sunset."”

4. "You still have a lot of time to make yourself be what you want. There's still lots of good in the world."

5. “I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what."

6. "You just hold your head high and keep those fists down. No matter what anybody says to you, don't you let 'em get your goat. Try fighting with your head for a change."

7. “Where there's hope, there's life. It fills us with fresh courage and makes us strong again.”

8. "Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy."

9. "You can't just sit there and put everyone's life ahead of yours and think that counts as love."

10. "We accept the love we think we deserve."

11. "You don't get to choose if you get hurt in this world, but you do have some say in who hurts you."

12. "Stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories."

13. “To everything there is a season. Yes. A time to break down, and a time to build up. Yes. A time to keep silence and a time to speak. Yes, all that.”