“You're going to come across people in your life who will say all the right words at all the right times. But in the end, it's always their actions you should judge them by. It's actions, not words, that matter.”

“All endings are also beginnings. We just don't know it at the time.”

“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.”

“Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.”

“It was not the feeling of completeness I so needed, but the feeling of not being empty.”

“It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”

“Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.”

“I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil.”