Stop running after the waves. Let the sea come to you.

Time is just an illusion. What you need is to live this very moment. That is all that matters.

Knowledge that takes you, not beyond yourself is far worse than ignorance.

Either grant me the bliss of the ignorant or give me the strength to bear the knowledge.

Moments are born and moments die. For new experiences to come to life, old ones need to wither away.

If you want to destroy something in this life, be it an acne, a blemish or the human soul, all you need to do is to surround it with thick walls. It will dry up inside.

Love cannot be explained, yet it explains all.

I hunt everywhere for a life worth living and a knowledge worth knowing. Having roots nowhere, I have everywhere to go.

Personally, I didn't think there was anything wrong with sadness. Just the opposite – hypocrisy made people happy and truth made them sad.

How can you blame others for disrespecting you when you think of yourself as unworthy of respect?

Do not go with the flow. Be the flow.

The care of the public health is the first duty of the statesman.

Amid my list of blessings infinite, stands this the foremost, "that my heart has bled."

Anything that can be put in a nut shell should remain there.

I thought I was gonna be in the minimum-wage working world all my life.

I never duck out of a fight; I don't care what the hell the odds are, and I'm rough at times, but I try to be a decent guy all the time. That's the way I've always lived.

Listening is love in action.

You know, when you start, especially with me, I didn't really know I was going to be a movie actress. I thought I was going to do theater.

Reliability engineers often assume that reliability and safety are synonymous, but this assumption is true only in special cases.

I do feel it. And I've felt it my whole life, that the supernatural has a role in the world.

It's probably your fiercest critics - not your compatriots - who have the sharpest, most resonant insights.