Do not forget about the butterflies.

We can't change the world by shouting, but our words can have meaning if we give them enough respect.

Let your dissent fuel you, your anger inspire you, your rage convey you, and your fury strike a chilling fear onto the spines of your enemies.

there are some some times in life where you have to let your feelings go and do what must be done

Before I fix the world, I have to fix myself.

While parchment may burn and gold may be stained or melted down, the things that are truly important to us will never lose their value.

Love is not measured by acts or years, but by truth between two people.

the bleakest situations bring out the hospitality in all of us, but it's during the harshest we find out how strong we really are.

With the threat of them being potential spies or saboteurs, nobody will argue against our actions, and history itself will vindicate us.

Heralds don't sing about men who lived in orthodoxy or played it safe, they sing about men who lived an uncertain future and took enough risks to make your head spin.

There is no right or wrong, only what we believe is more right or more wrong

The day you STOP expecting people to have the same compassion as you do, love like you & act like you would in a situation...Will be the day that will people stop letting you down.

If you add something to a painting, never let it be for aesthetic reasons. Only let it be for reasons of expression.

I did not have any money, so when I came to New York, I just dressed myself with whatever I could find and the Army-Navy store.

I don't think it's that strange that a show has sort of a bumpy beginning. It's just part and parcel of the process.

Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.

Something that cannot be explained cannot be seen.

Laws of physics laws of love of time and space and the (in)between place (in)between you and me and where we are lost and looking looking and lost

Is death such a high price to pay, when you will die anyway?

Your heart, Mary Karr, he'd say. His pen touched my sternum, and it felt for all the world like the point of a dull spear as he said, Your heart knows what your head don't. Or won't.

I'm thinking wanting to succeed is something in my DNA; I'm not like 'I've got to succeed,' I just don't think about that... I see a silver lining in everything and I see a lesson in everything.