If you are a conscious human being who has opinions about the world, then you will unconsciously put your own perspective into the book.

I used to dream about escaping my ordinary life, but my life was never ordinary. I had simply failed to notice how extraordinary it was.

Sometimes it's better not to look back.

If I'd kept my heart better armored, where would I be now?

Sometimes you just need to go through a door.

I was here for a reason. There was something I was meant not simply to be, but to do- and it wasn't to run or hide or give up the minute things seemed terrifying and impossible.

I liked this idea: that peculiarness wasn't a deficiency, but an abundance; that it wasn't we who lacked something normals had, but they who lacked peculiarness. That we were more, not less.

Strange, I thought, how you can be living your dreams and your nightmares at the very same time.

If you must fail ... fail spectacularly!

We cling to our fairy tales until the price for believing in them becomes too high.

There was a girl who could fly, a boy who had bees living inside him, a brother and sister who could lift boulders over their heads.

The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.

It’s not about being ready or feeling prepared all the time

Every man has his own destiny the only imperative is to follow it to accept it no matter where it leads him.

Forever I shall be a stranger to myself. In psychology as in logic, there are truths but no truth.

As an actor, you want a director who makes you feel comfortable in a place that you can really create and try a lot of different things.

True knowledge is found only among those genuinely worshiping God.

The advantage of wisdom is that you can play dumb. The opposite is more difficult.

God has a timeline. And because of Bethlehem, we have an idea where we stand on it.

I wish all teenagers can filter through songs instead of turning to drugs and alcohol.

The psychedelic issue is a civil rights and civil liberties issue. It is an issue concerned with the most basic of human freedoms: religious practice and the privacy of the individual mind.