I was attempting to write the story of my life. It wasn't so much about plot. It was much more about character.

Remember that at any given moment there are a thousand things you can love.

Life tells you to take the elevator, but love tells you to take the stairs.

Kindness connects to who you are, while niceness connects to how you want to be seen.

The older I get, the more I lose my ability to breathe.

A photograph it a souvenir of a memory. It is not a moment. It is the looking at the photograph that becomes the moment. Your own moment.

The words that matter always stay.

motif, n. You don’t love me as much as I love you. You don’t love me as much as I love you. You don’t love me as much as I love you.

It was a mistake," you said. But the cruel thing was, it felt like the mistake was mine, for trusting you.

You have to believe there are kisses and laughs and risks worth taking.

Things that matter are not easy. Feelings of happiness are easy. Happiness is not. Flirting is easy. Love is not. Saying you’re friends is easy. Being friends is not.

Self-reliance and self-learning are your greatest assets.

The perfect state is one where men weep and rejoice over the same things.

The great cathedral space which was childhood.

The only thing we have to fear on this planet is man.

I just hold it down for my side, I just hold it down for my set. I just give everybody a piece of this and make do with what's left.

Ray Comfort's got a fabulous film. Oh boy, this is going to cause the halls of academia to have a few conversations around the cafeteria.

Everyone has an equal right to inequality.

A child without an acquaintance of some kind with a classic of literature ... suffers from that impoverishment for the rest of his life. No later intimacy is like that of the first.

The road to freedom is bordered with sunflowers.

Smell is important. It reminds a person of all the things he's been through; it is a sheath of memories and security.