If you allowed yourself to hear or feel amusement, you would hear and feel pain.

And maybe that was love. Being so vulnerable and allowing someone else in so far they could hurt you, but they also give you everything.

He tasted passion. He tasted emotion. He tasted a world he’d never imagined, one he could never enter. It was right there in front of him, suddenly open to him. Unexpected. Exciting. Scary.

Here's to many more firsts and many more great memories.

I know what it's like to battle everyday of my life, just for acceptance, just to survive.

For the first time in his existence, he knew he was drowning and he wasn't thinking about survival.

As it was universal truth no one can control the power of nature, it was useless to mourn when rain poured heavily when it was least needed.

Subconsciously, we all want to be nebula... In the end, we’re all connected. We’re all going to become one cloud of light whether you like it or not. We’re all made of the same star dust.

My father and all my uncles on both sides served in the military in World War II and Korea.

Life, to be happy at all, must be in its way a sacrament, and it is a failure in religion to divorce it from the holy acts of everyday, of ordinary human existence.

What would you do if you had to choose?

Should we be mindful of dreams?" Joseph asked. "Can we interpret them?" The Master looked into his eyes and said tersely: "We should be mindful of everything, for we can interpret everything.

Respond to others about your work with equanimity.

It must be, for there is a logic to everything on this earth and nothing is done without a reason, that God sometimes lets scientists discover.

What does it mean to be too black for Hollywood? It's self-explanatory. Hollywood has certain kinds of blacks that they like.

Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear; Where little fears grow great, great love grows there.