His eyebrows drew together. He was perilously close to unibrow; I guess nobody had held him down and administered a good plucking to the caterpillar climbing across his forehead.

Better to be strong than pretty and useless.

What you cannot escape, you must fight; what you cannot fight, you must endure.

I went to the entrance to the restroom, where the hallway did a sharp bend so nobody could peek into the girls' pee-palace.

What you can't run away from, you have to face

Are you listening, little bird?

Christophe, with the careful tone of an adult telling a kid not to pet the nice foaming-rabid pooch.

If something is visceral and unsettling for me, my job is to not look away, not to punk out. Sometimes the dark things come from places inside me, experiences Ive had, that need to be transformed.

That's the funny thing about old hurts- they just wait for new heartache to come along and then show up, just as sharp and horrible as the first day you woke up with the world changed all around you.

The only place their voices were left was in my head. It was better than being alone but it was so, so lonely.

He stared at his hot chocolate like it held the secret to the universe.

Not fulfilling your dreams will be a loss to the world, because the world needs everyone's gift - yours and mine.

Our arms must be mighty ... ready for instant action, so that no potential aggressor may be tempted to risk his own destruction

No one ever complained their way to the top.

a star dies in heaven every time you snatch away someone's dream.

Lessons are not to take the place of practice, but to make practice worthwhile.

What concerns me when I work, is not whether the picture is a landscape, or whether it's pastoral, or whether somebody will see a sunset in it. What concerns me is - did I make a beautiful picture?

If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all.

A spirit cannot soar with only one wing.

Men hate the individual whom they call avaricious only because there is nothing to be gained by him.

Most people think that God wants us to demonstrate our love for God by having churches and by having symbols - and I think that's a huge error.