Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.

Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.

It is not enough to be happy, one must be content.

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

To love beauty is to see light.

An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.

The future has several names. For the weak, it is impossible; for the fainthearted, it is unknown; but for the valiant, it is ideal.

Go out in the world and work like money doesn't matter, sing as if no one is listening, love as if you have never been hurt, and dance as if no one is watching.

When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.

Music expresses that which cannot be put into words.

There is nothing like a dream to create the future.

The worse scenario is when you do not know the purpose of your day to day existence

I was desperate not to confront the fact that this really could be it—that "nineteen" didn't matter, that there really was a point at which even young bodies fail. I was not immortal.

I'm so thankful to have been born in the times that we live in.

Evil has to exist along with good, in order that moral choice may operate.

Confidence is key. Always. Even when we might have messed up.

Everything I've done, I've done because I wanted to do it. In doing it, I've plunged in headlong, always believing in it.

When I saw Tyson knocking everybody out on TV, I thought, He's goooood. But when I saw him in person, he didn't look as awesome.

If you're not connected emotionally to a story, then you're dead. You're really just opening the door for people to lose interest and their minds to wander, for them to start picking it apart.

No memory of having starred atones for later disregard, or keeps the end from being hard.