You can’t make someone your everything because when they are gone you have nothing left.

The heart can never break if you believe love never dies.

Life's just a dream. It isn't real. I know that you can't see that yet. You want me to wake up but in my death I did wake up and I saw you were still sleeping.

Why do people feel better when they blame someone? I don’t know. Maybe it just feels better to be angry than to be sad.

Love can be found in unexpected places. Sometimes we go out searching for what we think we want and we end up with what we’re supposed to have.

...why, when people write words do they capitalize “I”? Why not capitalize “You” too? For You are as important as I am. It’s hard for me to understand the human ways.

God should always be our first thought, not our last resort.

I know it sounds so simple but Love Is All There Is.

The end of this life is not the end of life.

We tried to make a heaven of earth, But the earth is just a stage, a school, Where we wear our masks and play our rolesAnd teach each other how to love.

Once you know this kind of love, you will never question love again. You’ll know it when you see it. You’ll know it when you feel it. You will never be confused by something that is something else.

I had been fortified by trauma, the way a bone, once broken, grows back stronger than it had been.

I am turned into a dream. I feel nothing, or I don't know what I feel. Yet it seems to me I am happy.

War isn't about making historywar is about breaking the present.

As soon as you trust yourself you will know how to live.

It is not enough to offer a smorgasbord of courses. We must insure that students are not just eating at one end of the table.

No studio in Hollywood wanted 'Cold Mountain.' None. No one wanted 'Ripley,' no one wanted 'The English Patient.' That tells you there isn't really an appetite for ambitious movie-making out there.

I wonder how well she sleeps at night, and what kind of dreams she has. I wish I could step into them like she steps into mine.

Having lived in a collapsed empire before - I lived in Russia right after the Soviet Union collapsed - you can see a lot of the classic signs of an empire that's on its way out.

I seek to widen, narrow narratives of women of color.

Love is the force, the energy that animates creativity and peace in each one of us.