Happiness always has an object... Depends on external things. Joy... Has no object. It seizes you for no apparent reason, it's like the sun, its burning is fueled by its own heart.

life is not a race, but a shot on target: what counts is not the saving of time, but the ability to find a centre

To make mistakes is natural, but to go to one's grave without having understood them is to make life a pointless exercise.

Love doesn't suit the lazy; sometimes it requires strong, precise actions.

Follow your heart, and listen when it speaks to you.

The love withheld is always the love we long for most.

Unshed tears leave a deposit on your heart. Eventually they form a crust around it and paralyze it, the way mineral deposits paralyze a washing machine.

. . . Like ashes of gold in a cinnamon-flame, My youthful desires have been burnt with the years– And tonight in the chilling sunset-windA cicada, singing, weighs on my heart.

I cheated on my fears, broke up with my doubts, got engaged to my faith, and now I'm marrying my Dreams.Soon I will be holding hands with Destiny!

Your working style is describe your self..

A film is a petrified fountain of thought.

Time is not so all-erasing as we think.

Michael Arndt, that guy - you're just supposed to say nice things about other writers, but I worship Michael Arndt.

When people speak of Time's healing magic, they are simply being euphemistic about our human tendency - and perhaps necessity - to forget.

This foundational principle - that human beings derive their rights from God, rather than from the State, or any other source - is what made America different.

Oh God, friend breakups are the worst. The worst! And I've been through it. Basically, if you're over the age of 5, you've been through friend breakups.

I watch 'Sons of Anarchy' and 'Game of Thrones' and 'The Walking Dead' and think, 'I want to create that kind of television!