Don't be distracted by the noise going on. Pause & reflect. You'll realize how much time you've wasted on all that nonsense around you.

Don't let past mistakes make you lose hope of achieving good. Some of those with the worst past have made a great future for themselves.

And if not for the caterpillars and butterflies, who will I talk to? You'll be far away. And as for larger creatures, I'm not afraid. I have my thorns...to protect me.

Being number one doesn't mean you are the best.

Please, God. Help me. Take this pain away. Please fill this loneliness with your love. Help me, God, please, help me.

I came to New York to see what I could see - that's from a children's book, isn't it? - and to find the living part.

There comes a time when money doesn't matter.

Then, when people saw you strolling around at high noon holding your rosary beads, they’d think, ‘Well, that can’t be a vampire.

We see with our brains, not with our eyes.

We join ourselves to no party that does not carry the flag and I keep step to the music of the Union.

We are either going to dissolve as a human race or we are going to break through into a new understanding of what it is to be a human being.

I long To hear the story of your life, which must Take the ear strangely.