My earnest desire for you has brought me to a point, where the life I've imagined we shall have, seems like a distant memory.

What people want, mainly, is to be told by some plausible authority that what they are already doing is right. I don't know know of a quicker way to become unpopular than to disagree.

I could knock out loads of what I term aromatherapy music pretty swiftly. If you want something that is going to last, however, you're going to have to spend a lot more time on it.

It's common platitude that knowledge is neutral but every now and then it would be useful if it was on your side and not theirs.

There are few better ways to get to know how a species thinks than to learn their art.

Stories matter. They shape our lives, expectations, and dreams. They are the warp and weave of our human existence, binding us into a fabric far stronger than any individual element

—and I say you still haven't answered my question, Father Bleu.""Haven't I, dear lady? I thought I stated that death is merely the beginning

Many sheep but one Shepherd.

Dopamine is a chemical released in your brain and your body when you sleep that paralyzes your body so you don't act out your dreams.

The haft of the arrow had been feathered with one of the eagle's own Lures. We often give our enemies the means of our own destruction.

My mom was proud but very hands off. She didn't really know enough about the model industry, and she didn't have the time to stop her life to go chaperone me. I think she trusted me.

The poet is one who is able to keep the fresh vision of the child alive.

I think good chemistry starts with mutual respect.

All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education of youth.

I didn't show up at the ceremony to collect any of my first three Oscars. Once I went fishing, another time there was a war on, and on another occasion, I remember, I was suddenly taken drunk.

And the mind that has conceived a plan of living must never lose sight of the chaos against which that pattern was conceived. That goes for societies as well as for individuals.

I'm a big advocate of being around the things that you want to do eventually, and being around people who are doing them.