““It’s funny. All one has to do is say something nobody understands and they’ll do practically anything you want them to.””
"Make sure you marry someone who laughs at the same things you do."
- J.D. Salinger
Love
"She wasn't doing a thing that I could see, except standing there leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together."
- J.D. Salinger
Love
"You cannot stop loving your friend because he’s dead, especially if he was better than anyone alive, you know?"
- J.D. Salinger
Love
"I was trying to feel some kind of good-bye. I mean I’ve left schools and places I didn’t even know I was leaving them. I hate that. I don’t care if it’s a sad good-bye or a bad good-bye, but when I leave a place I like to know I’m leaving it. If you don’t you feel even worse."
- J.D. Salinger
Awareness
"Don’t ever tell anyone anything. If you do, you start missing everybody."
- J.D. Salinger
Adversity
"We cannot solve problems with the kind of thinking we employed when we came up with them."
- Albert Einstein
Insight
"Vision is not what your eyes see, but an image that your brain comprehends."
- Touko Aozaki
Insight
"The difference between genius and stupidity is; genius has its limits."
- Albert Einstein
Insight
"Someone asked me, if I were stranded on a desert island what book would I bring: ‘How to Build a Boat.’"
- Steven Wright
Insight
"The shell of an oyster only hides the pearl inside."
- Jack
Insight