Take each day in your open palms and close your fists around it. This life is not done with you yet.

There are no lungs like the ones that breathe poetry.

The sky never falls with the rain. It is never weighed down by all that it carries. It takes all of its anchorsand turns them into stars. Learn from this.

Your flesh is not a reflection of your soul. So when you look in the mirror, remember that your light outshines your flaws.

I am in awe of flowers. Not because of their colors, but because even though they have dirt in their roots, they still grow. They still bloom.

What is the finding of love, but a voice answering a voice?

Love is wind for the soul

Life is so beautiful and so short that anything that makes me feel less than too much is nothing at all.

My heart's scripture tastes foreign in the mouths of cowards and on the tongues of those who have never breathed inthe moon and breathed out the world.

I want to celebrate the sadness that makes you feel everything so deeply. I want to throw a party for the wounds that make you so unabashedly human.

Before you step out into the world today, remember that you will encounter people whose struggles you do not know. Remember the way a pair of eyes light up when greeted with kindness.

Never pause unless you have a reason for it, but when you pause, pause as long as you can.

The U.S. Senate - an old scow which doesn't move very fast but never sinks.

Well I wouldn't say that I was in the 'great' class but I had a great time while I was trying to be great.

There are real solutions right now for us if we stand up with the courage of our convictions.

There is nothing in history to parallel the influence of Jesus Christ.

Obviously, the best dressed awards is very relevant, I'm best dressed at all times.(smiles)

I feel comfortable in places like London. You get many cultures in L.A. but it's strangely segregated.

Thank God for small movies and filmmakers who can make movies for not $8 million. Thank God for $8,000 movies.

I think Stalin was afraid of Roosevelt. Whenever Roosevelt spoke, he sort of watched him with a certain awe. He was afraid of Roosevelt's influence in the world.

I'm not the only one: witness Pokemon! They still keep coming up with this stuff that just rivets us in unexpected areas.