Robin Williams

"Carpe diem. Seize the day, boys. Make your lives extraordinary."

"It's not your fault."

"You'll have bad times, but it'll always wake you up to the good stuff you weren't paying attention to."

"We don’t read and write poetry because it’s cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race."

"Medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life."

"But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for."

"That the powerful play goes on, and you may contribute a verse."

"Now, in this class, you can either call me Mr. Keating, or if you’re slightly more daring, O Captain! My Captain!"

"I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life."

"No matter what anybody tells you, words and ideas can change the world."

"Language was developed for one endeavor, and that is… to woo women."

"The human race is filled with passion."

"Carpe diem. Seize the day, boys. Make your lives extraordinary."

"Just when you think you know something, you have to look at it in another way."

"I always thought the idea of education was to learn to think for yourself."

"When you read, don’t just consider what the author thinks. Consider what you think."

"What will your verse be?"

"The difficulty of maintaining the belief in oneself in a world which conspires to make you like everyone else."

"Sucking the marrow out of life doesn’t mean choking on the bone."

"We are not laughing at you, we are laughing near you."

"I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world."

"Son of a bitch. He stole my line."

"Maybe you’re perfect right now, maybe you don’t want to ruin that."

"People call those imperfections flaws, but no, that’s the good stuff."

"That’s what intimacy is all about."

"You’ll have bad times, but it’ll always wake you up to the good stuff you weren’t paying attention to."

"You’re just a kid. You don’t have the faintest idea what you’re talking about."

"If I asked you about love, you’d probably quote me a sonnet."

"If I asked you about war, you’d probably throw Shakespeare at me."

"If I asked you about art, you’d probably give me the skinny on every art book ever written."

"But you can’t tell me what it smells like in the Sistine Chapel."

"You think I know the first thing about how hard your life has been?"

"Real loss is only possible when you love something more than you love yourself."

"That’s super philosophy, Will. That way you can go through your entire life without ever having to really know anybody."

"She’s not perfect. You’re not perfect. But the question is whether or not you’re perfect for each other."

"We don't read and write poetry because it's cute."

"We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race."

"And the human race is filled with passion."

"And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life."

"That you are here—that life exists, and identity, that the powerful play goes on, and you may contribute a verse.""

"There's a time for daring and there's a time for caution, and a wise man understands which is called for."

"They're not that different from you, are they?"

"They believe they're destined for great things, just like many of you, their eyes are full of hope, just like you."

"Did they wait until it was too late to make from their lives even one iota of what they were capable?"

"Because, you see gentlemen, these boys are now fertilizing daffodils."