F. Scott Fitzgerald

"You can deceive yourself in a thousand ways."

"The most beautiful people are those with a purpose."

"Youth is the most beautiful thing in the world."

"We are all broken, that's how the light gets in."

"A person is smart. People are dumb."

"I was a stranger to myself."

"No one is ever really ready."

"The future belongs to those who believe in it."

"I suppose all writers are a little mad."

"Life is essentially a game of concentration."

"You love the idea of something."

"The greatest achievement is being able to forgive."

"Everything is beautiful and nothing hurts."

"I was alive and that is what mattered."

"To be myself, I had to be true to myself."

"Failure is just the beginning."

"I wanted the world to see me."

"The knowledge came to me very slowly."

"I was learning slowly about life."

"Every dream begins with a dreamer."

"The only natural thing is change."

"We cannot recreate the past."

"Life is like that. You're climbing a staircase that stretches toward the sky."

"There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you."

"I was in love, or thought I was."

"Intelligence is a fine thing."

"The strong survive and the weak don't."

"You're worth the whole damn bunch put together."

"I feel like I've been alive for a thousand years."

"The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive but in finding something to live for."