I come from a dysfunctional family, so my views of parents and parenting used to be highly mixed.

Money talks and walks, but it does not bark.

You look as scary as a buttered muffin.

Without patience, magic would be undiscovered - in rushing everything, we would never hear its whisper inside.

Threats are the last resort of a man with no vocabulary.

It's harder to heal than it is to kill.

Waves are the voices of tides. Tides are life.

I myself have noticed my growing resemblance to a daffodil.

Didn't they realize that the only way to change things was to act?

Without reading, we are all without light in the dark, without fire in the cold.

Waves are the voices of tides. Tides are life," murmured Niko. "They bring new food for shore creatures, and take ships out to sea. They are the ocean's pulse, and our own heartbeat.

The only thing I cannot predict is the future

I feel a kinship with anyone who feels that their road, their life or who they really are is not good enough. I really relate to that.

The best way to get a move to work is to make it so uncomfortable that the opponent gives it to you to stop the pain.

I have cellulite. I admit it. But sometimes I just say, 'Screw it, I am going to wear a bikini.'

Insatiate archer! could not one suffice? Thy shaft flew thrice, and thrice my peace was slain; And thrice, ere thrice yon moon had filled her horn.

To say America can have strong leadership without strong character is to say we can get water without the wet.

... humanity deserved to die horribly, since it had behaved so cruelly and wastefully on a planet so sweet.

Attitude determines how well you do it.

Knowledge is the barrier to knowing. When knowledge is dropped, knowing flowers.

Just bring love. Everybody keeps bringing violence, let's bring love.