Civil disobedience can only lead to strength and purity.

Where there is love there is life.

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

True beauty lies in purity of the heart.

The future depends on what you do today.

Fearlessness is the first requisite of spirituality. Cowards can never be moral.

In a gentle way, you can shake the world

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

They cannot take away our self respect if we do not give it to them.

An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.

Relationships are based on four principles: respect, understanding, acceptance and appreciation.

I wonder if that's the perennial story of writers: you find the true light, you lose the true light, you find it again. And maybe again.

Captain Dan Miller about space: It is full & silent...It is like a woman with a secret. I felt as if I were seeing something of myself...I felt as if I were somehow connected to these great beings.

Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself.

What drives me is what I'm putting out into the world, and I like to make films that people can connect to, or they can escape in.

My parents dreaded the fact that I was changing my life to do this, but I just kept doing it.

I often have to write a hundred pages or more before there's a paragraph that's alive.

It’s Adrian Ivashkov logic. Don’t try to understand it. Just roll with it.

The tactician must know what to do whenever something needs doing; the strategist must know what to do when nothing needs doing

A man who cannot seduce men cannot save them either.

My daughter is my greatest inspiration.