Touch is... one of the most ancient transactions, a defiance of the plasma membrane and the loneliness it brought.

I loved school so much that most of my classmates considered me a dork.

Im going to be shaking my booty when Im 55.

The only time a woman really succeeds in changing a man is when he is a baby.

Cute is when your personality shines through your looks.

Don't be afraid of death; be afraid of an unlived life. You don't have to live forever, you just have to live.

It's much easier to write when you're sad. But you can end up isolated and depressed because you almost need to put yourself in that situation to have that angst to write from.

Ignore reality, there's nothing you can do about it.

There's no such thing as perfect people. There's no such thing as a perfect life. So come as you are, broken and scarred. Lift up your heart and be amazed and be changed by a perfect God.

Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency.

Smart women love smart men more than smart men love smart women.

We tend to overestimate the effect of a technology in the short run and underestimate the effect in the long run.

God gives us opportunity to serve him by serving humanity.

I shrank from the faces and forms by which I was surrounded. They were all fixed faces, full not of possibilities but impossibilities,

Give without expectation and receive with reckless abandon.

Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Remember you must die whether you sit about moping all day long or whether on feast days you stretch out in a green field, happy with a bottle of Falernian from your innermost cellar.

We have not looked at any particular movies [in creating War Horse], but again, it's hard not to see the similarities between those movies [because of those filmmakers' influence on the industry].

I don't trust happiness. I turn it over as if it were a glass at a flea market or a rug at a souk, looking for chipped rims or loose threads.

I think people hide behind anonymity and they feel like they can say whatever they want behind closed doors.

If you don't make mistakes you can't make decisions.