"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind."
— Dr. Seuss

"I don't want to die without any scars."
— Chuck Palahniuk (Fight Club)

"Thinkers aren't limited by what they know, because they can always increase what they know. Rather they're limited by what puzzles them, because there's no way to become curious about something that doesn't puzzle you."
— Daniel Quinn (My Ishmael)

"There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people."
— Howard Zinn

"Historically, the most terrible things - war, genocide, and slavery - have resulted not from disobedience, but from obedience."
— Howard Zinn

"Agnostics are just atheists without balls."
— Stephen Colbert (I Am America: And So Can You!)

"The only thing worse than a boy who hates you: a boy that loves you."
— Markus Zusak (The Book Thief)

"If fate doesn't make you laugh, you just don't get the joke."
— Gregory David Roberts

"did anybody ever come back from the dead any single one of the millions who got killed did any one of them ever come back and say by god i'm glad i'm dead because death is always better than dishonor? did they say i'm glad i died to make the world safe for democracy? did they say i like death better than losing liberty? did any of them ever say it's good to think i got my guts blown out for the honor of my country? did any of them ever say look at me i'm dead but i died for decency and that's better than being alive? did any of them ever say here i am i've been rotting for two years in a foreign grave but it's wonderful to die for your native land? did any of them say hurray i died for womanhood and i'm happy see how i sing even though my mouth is choked with worms?"
— Dalton Trumbo (Johnny Got His Gun)

"If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all."
— Noam Chomsky

"Everyone’s worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there’s really an easy way: Stop participating in it."
— Noam Chomsky

"I've got my indignation but I'm pure in all my thoughts."
— Eddie Vedder

"But in good time you'll see that sometimes what matters isn't what one gives but what one gives up."
— Carlos Ruiz Zafón (The Shadow of the Wind)

"People shouldn't be afraid of their government. Governments should be afraid of their people."
— Alan Moore (V for Vendetta)

"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on."
— Robert Frost

"And now," cried Max, "let the wild rumpus start!"
— Maurice Sendak (Where the Wild Things Are)

"We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us."
— E.M. Forster

"I wanted movement and not a calm course of existence. I wanted excitement and danger and the chance to sacrifice myself for my love."
— Leo Tolstoy

"If ever there is tomorrow when we're not together.. there is something you must always remember. you are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. but the most important thing is, even if we're apart.. I'll always be with you."
— A.A. Milne

"Our greatest fear is not that we are inadequate, but that we are powerful beyond measure. It is out light, not our darkness that frightens us. We ask ourselves, "Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and fabulous?" Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world and there is nothing enlightened about shrinking, so that others won't feel insecure around you. We were born to manifest the glory of God within us. It is not just in some, it is in everyone. As we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give others permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our fear, our presence automatically liberates others. "
— Marianne Williamson (A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of "A Course in Miracles")

"You should not allow yourself the luxuries of discouragement of despair. Bounce back immediately, and welcome the adversity because it produces harder thinking and harder drive to get to the objective.""
— Ralph Nader

"Let it not be said by a future, forlorn generation that we wasted and lost our great potential because our despair was so deep we didn't even try, or because each of us thought someone else was worrying about our problems."
— Ralph Nader

"I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best."
— Marilyn Monroe

"I'd rather regret the things I have done than the things that I haven't."
— Lucille Ball

"Animals don't hate, and we're supposed to be smarter than them."
— Elvis Presley

"When I look at my room, I see a girl who loves books."
— John Green (Looking for Alaska)