...What you are is a force--a force that makes it possible for your body to live, a force that makes it possible for your whole mind to dream...You are life

the real mission you have in life is to make yourself happy, and in order to be happy, you have to look at what you believe, the way you judge yourself, the way you victimize yourself

when the need is in the mind, you cannot satisfy the need

Until one comes who is mightier, The one sprung from misery, The one who was weak, The one who was hunted, The one marked with claw and vine, The one named in secret, The one called Jezelia.

how these words, wait to diein the arms of all the poetry..yet to be written.

The comfort was peculiarly chilling.

Gratitude is the antidote to stress.

There are degrees of happiness. You go from one to the other and then back again. It's hard to be completely happy when those around us are suffering and groaning from hunger.

When I hear music which is really exciting, I get really excited, and when I hear music which is really boring, I get really upset. I get angry.

On a very gloomy dismal day, just such a one as it ought to be, I went to see Westminster Abbey.

But my friends, these people in Egypt have stood by us in a tough, tough neighborhood.

[I'm a conscious parent when I] believe that my child is here to teach me as much about myself and how I need to grow, as I am here to teach them.

People seem to think there's a magic formula to writing, i just write 1 word at a time.