It doesn’t take long for your fortunes to turn. One second you’re fluttery as a bird, the next you’re on the ground with your wings clipped.

It is not the presence of despair that ails you, but the absence of hope.

How do we perceive what’s important in life, from what we once thought to what we think now, how does it change?

Where there is darkness, there once was light.

I find peace where the sun kissed leaves dance in the melody of the cool breeze that floats through the air.

Whatever may happen, the memories of then will always remain, ever so sweetly with me, nothing to tarnish it. Not even the ugliness of reality.

Don’t waste your time dying over the past, spend it living in the present.

You could climb to the top of the world and jump into the deepest of ravines, but if you don’t have someone to share it with you’ll always be looking back.

Every time my stupor turns into vibrancy, standing around is not an option.

If you list down whatever you didn’t get to do, then whatever you did won’t feel like it mattered.

Still we remain, still we fight. Still we strive, still we survive.

Temptation is stronger in the minds of people who are in doubt. Prayer makes it weaker.

On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.

I think. I am. I will.

Birdsong foamed in the hour-before-dawn garden.

CIVILISATION is not to be judged by the rapidity of communication, but by the value of what is communicated.

I don't understand the word 'hunk.

The natural way of ensuring that the past continues to live in the present and to inform the future is to write it down.

I think many years ago I got on a bus in L.A. and drove around to see the stars' homes, but that's the extent of my direct experience in Hollywood.

There's nothing here to say good-bye to. There's no dancing girl. No mischievous smile. She's gone, off with her sisters, broken free, escaped. And if she were here now, she would say, "Go.

The thousands of clips on internet are better to us than any DVD that could have been released.