When I'm inspired, I jot things down and put them in a pile.

A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.

You change the world by being yourself.

Some people are old at 18 and some are young at 90. Time is a concept that humans created.

Smile to the future and it will smile back to you

Every drop in the ocean counts.

Fracking kills, and it doesn't just kill us. It kills the land, nature and, eventually, the whole world.

Imagine a dolphin dancing in the sky. Let it dance with joy. Think of yourself at the bottom of the ocean watching.

Spring passes and one remembers one's innocence. Summer passes and one remembers one's exuberance. Autumn passes and one remembers one's reverence. Winter passes and one remembers one's perseverance.

Each time we don't say what we wanna say, we're dying.

Healing yourself is connected with healing others.

I'm sorry, " Billy says, "but I felt it was too organized. I like ellipses and teeny jottings and spontaneous poems and particularly all those devices like long lists of melancholy things.

The most essential prerequisite to understanding is to be able to admit when you don't understand something

Desire is easy to fight. Especially when the only weapon desire possess is attraction. It's not so easy when you're trying to win a war against the heart.

I vowed after that day that I would be your hero too, no matter how long it took

It's people with obsessions who do the real harm in the world.

Tank's a fantastic human being, as far as fighting's concerned.

Every book is three books, after all; the one the writer intended, the one the reader expected, and the one that casts its shadow when the first two meet by moonlight.

The key to good decision making is not knowledge. It is understanding. We are swimming in the former. We are desperately lacking in the latter.

My job apart from anything else is to build an ensemble composed of actors who all come from a secure place so that they can all work together to make the film.

Life helps those who help themselves.