“But there is no shortage of fault to be found amid our stars.”— John Green, Peter Van Houten, amazon.com
“Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.”— John Green, Hazel, amazon.com
“The temperance of [a] response to raking criticism, the readiness to seize what was just in it and to throw the husks away without undue friction or resentment or los of friendship—these show a kind of character which if it became general could change the course of human affairs.”— Brand Blanshard, amazon.com
“Seems every few decades the World goes batshit crazy. Just long enough to forget the last time the World went batshit crazy.”— Neil deGrasse Tyson, twitter.com
“The most remarkable property of the universe is that it has spawned creatures able to ask questions.”— Stephen Hawking, books.google.com
“The human capacity for guilt is such that people can always find ways to blame themselves.”— Stephen Hawking, books.google.com
“We only have to look at ourselves to see how intelligent life might develop into something we wouldn’t want to meet.”— Stephen Hawking, books.google.com
“To confine our attention to terrestrial matters would be to limit the human spirit.”— Stephen Hawking, books.google.com
“I don't think the human race will survive the next thousand years, unless we spread into space.”— Stephen Hawking, books.google.com
“But ever since the dawn of civilization, people have not been content to see events as unconnected and inexplicable. They have craved an understanding of the underlying order in the world. Today we still yearn to know why we are here and where we come from. Humanity's deepest desire for knowledge is…”— Stephen Hawking, amazon.com
“I would say that my mother is the single biggest role model in my life, but that term doesn’t seem to encompass enough when I use it about her. She was the love of my life.”— Mindy Kaling, parade.com
“Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials.”— Meryl Streep, parade.com
“Because I will forget her, yes. That which came together will fall apart imperceptibly slowly, and I will forget, but she will forgive my forgetting, just as I forgive her for forgetting me.”— John Green, Chip, amazon.com
“That's the mystery, isn't it? Is the labyrinth living or dying? Which is he trying to escape--the world or the end of it?”— John Green, Alaska Young, amazon.com
“We can’t love our neighbors till we know how crooked their hearts are.”— John Green, Alaska Young, amazon.com
“After all this time, it still seems to me like straight and fast is the only way out - but I choose the labyrinth. The labyrinth blows, but I choose it.”— John Green, Chip, amazon.com
“You can't just make yourself matter and then die, Alaska, because now I am irretrievably different, and I'm sorry I let you go, yes, but you made the choice. You left me Perhapsless, stuck in your goddamned labyrinth. And now I don't even know if you chose the straight and fast way out, if you left…”— John Green, Miles 'Pudge' Halter, amazon.com
“The slogan 'Press On' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.”— Calvin Coolidge, reddit.com